Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sole appeal made for [this bill] is the claim that funds should be provided to veterans in distress. . . . The number of veterans in need of such relief is a minor percentage of the whole...
Ruling on an appeal by Excelsior El Pais, a newspaper suppressed by President Machado's so-called "gag decree," the Cuban Supreme Court upheld the decree last week, thus reversed reports current in Havana (TIME, Feb. 2) that the Court had prepared a decision holding the President's act unconstitutional...
...York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, six States which contain one-half the U. S. Roman Catholic population,* and found priests eager to hear the prospectus of their "National Diversified Corp." The corporation proposed to make "movie and talkie pictures of thoroughly high-class, moral type, such as would appeal to church people." They promised that their major picture, Mary the Virgin, would be reverent in plot, the scenes proper. The hierarchy would certainly approve. But money was essential. They would sell stock in National Diversified Corp. to serious-minded believers...
...Tomlinson has never been accused of arson, no London bobby has ever arrested him for setting the Thames on fire. A solid citizen in literature's republic, he is known, liked, admired by other solid citizens. Primarily an essayist, a ponderer, his earnest musings appeal to lovers of quiet English and of quiet English sense (which has in it a touch of the lyrical, a dash of the salty). This book of essays and sketches should cause no fluctuation in Tomlinsons, which should remain steady, safe...
Unfortunately this latter type of fighting does not appeal to human nature. Ask a man whether he would rather see two boxers mix for the fun of it and applaud them in between rounds or watch two men maul each other in a fight and he would undoubtedly answer in the negative. The giving and taking of blows is more exciting than the mutual warding off of opponents gloves. It takes a real love for the sport and an interest in the men participating to appreciate boxing as conducted according to intercollegiate rules...