Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oklahoma favors a Murray candidacy. This month the Tulsa World said of its Governor: "He has a tricky mind and a cunning appeal. Like a jackass braying into an empty rain barrel, he mistakes the sound and fury for wisdom and profundity. He encourages and agitates unrest and class hatred. We apologize for having supported him. To go with him further is like walking through a slaughter house to an open grave...
...knowledge of the period under his pen. But none can condemn him for not at once setting his readers at ease. Nothing is more difficult than disentangling a reader from his own era and transporting him back to times gone before. One is compelled to praise the crescendo of appeal developed by Mr. Colby as he travels westward, eastward, southward, and finally Westward. Only by a genial perusal of dark pages and the vagaries of his own adventure in America could the author have found the American soul beneath the sectional variations which he defines so accurately. The American heart...
...plans for defense, which originated at the League headquarters in San Francisco last week, include a nation-wide appeal to Chinese students in the universities to learn how to fly immediately, and to Chinese who already have pilots' licenses to assist in teaching their countrymen...
...President Hoover became a committee-member last September of the Liberal Arts College Movement, to which 235 small colleges belong (TIME, Sept. 14). At the behest of Senator Simeon Davison Fess, onetime (1907-17) president of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio), he agreed to join in a radio appeal for the group. Last week, along with Speechmaker John Huston Finley of the New York Times, Director Charles Riborg Mann of the American Council of Education and President Albert Norman Ward of Western Maryland College, Chairman of L. A. C. M., Member Hoover spoke briefly. Said...
...became louder. In The Long Christmas Dinner, a collection of six one-act plays no commercial producer would care to put on. Author Wilder has returned at last to the U. S. But The Long Christmas Dinner will give little aid & comfort to patriotic critics: no potential bestseller, its appeal is limited to the intelligentsia, for the affluent of whom there is a special edition of 500 copies (autographed...