Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eternal appeal does not lie with these adventures of the body alone. Kipling and Keyserling have done as well with India. It is when Yeats-Brown travels off the beaten-path of the senses that Kim and Gunga Din pale into insignificance. Strange stories have come out of the East for years; the cobra-enchanter, the sacred animals and the mystical rites along the Ganges, the horrible parade of the Juggernaut in the Temple Square. The Bengal Lancer wondered about these. And wondering, he took to the path of the great Yogi, he sat at the feet of the guru...
...have always felt that the only effectual appeal to the American people . . ." said Sir Thomas, "must be to their idealism. It was in this spirit that my verses were written." Verses...
Help. Heretofore when the Red Cross asked for disaster money, contributions swiftly reached $1,000,000 daily. Last week, after nearly three weeks' appeal for the $10,000,000, receipts totaled $4,883,159. Over the radio Chairman Payne pleaded: "Drought presses slowly. There is nothing in it to quicken the emotions- unless one sees with his own eyes the gaunt hunger and hopelessness of those affected...
...Royal Aero Club, and Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson visited the Prime Minister. From their meetings Mr. MacDonald emerged with a change of mind. The Government would loan R. A. F. pilots for racing and planes for training, but no money. The Royal Aero Club hurriedly planned a nationwide appeal; the Society of British Aircraft Constructors assumed $50,000 of the burden. Sir Philip would do what he could. But the $500,000 was still remote...
...Post since 1914. The Post had first to be convinced that the person sought could not be reached in any other manner-e. g. if he were known to be a cover-to-cover Post reader and assumed to be in some farflung part of the earth. The appeal to Horace cost "Mother...