Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts and significance of the Sine-Japanese crisis in Manchuria was issued yesterday by the Harvard Chinese Students Club. The club, meeting in the Phillips Brooks House on September 26 resolved "to urge strong action and firm attitude on the part of the Chinese government, and to appeal on behalf of their country to the judgment of the world for adequate support to vindicate humanity and justice...
...have to worry whether or not the money came in, Publisher Gannett's line of appeal was remarkably insistent. Unlike Publisher Hearst, he ordered his own employes to sell the stock. To each went a circular letter, a booklet of selling hints and a blank prospect list. The letter, signed by the publisher, read in part: "We expect every employee of the company to turn in at least 24 names." The booklet suggested such prospects as "Your relations. . . . People your relatives can suggest. . . . Personal friends. . . . People with whom you trade. . . . Members of your club or lodge. . . ." The prospect list...
...educated by Jesuit priests, learned from them a skill and precision in disputation which has since stood him in good stead. Later he was graduated from Loyola University. In the two decades he has practiced law in Chicago he has become known as one of the city's best appeal lawyers. He has attracted outside attention through his treatises on the 18th Amendment in which he emphasizes State sovereignty and the point: "A man's home is his castle." Of late, with his partner Thomas D. Nash, he has defended many a gangster...
...then, on behalf of these semi-starved millions, appeal to the conscience of the world to come to the rescue of a people dying for regaining its liberty...
...discrimination of judges: if you are wise, you will throw no stones. The Opening of a Door is an ex-i raordinarily good first novel, but any committee might be pardoned for deciding that its subject, manner, authorship had too Julian-Greenish a tinge to make the widest appeal...