Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minded in the least. Trouble first began when a Devonshire court fined Sovereign Harman ?5 because he "did unlawfully, as a token of money, issue a piece of metal of the value of one penny [or puffin] contrary to section five of the Coinage Act of 1870." In his appeal before the higher court last week Mr. Harman said: "As is very well known, when anything serious occurs in Lundy the British Government disclaims responsibility. They have done so whenever the entire population have been murdered!" "Indeed?" observed Mr. Justice Avory with interest. "And does murder of the entire population...
...menceau was the antithesis of "Papa" Joffre. The Marshal was in France unquestionably the best beloved hero of the entire War. Last week would even a single deputy refuse to join in laying a harmless wreath of words upon the tomb of JOFFRE? The eulogy ended with this moving appeal by Oldest Deputy Sibille: "May there be no use of language that would wound others or inject hatred!" There was no such use. Silently nearly all the Socialist deputies, all the Communist deputies, abstained from voting, refused to join in the last accolade of France to the man who saved...
...want to appeal to the whole nation! . . . What would the public have said if it had been the miners who declined to recognize an act of Parliament? . . . The owners by their conduct in ignoring the act have been knocked completely out of court...
...result of the investigation, and from an exchange of opinions among the members of the board, the Commission has been able to arrive at a constructive scheme, which will be proposed in their report. Since the appeal is to the board which designs the examinations, it is to be expected that the findings will largely influence the teaching of English in preparatory schools throughout the country...
...games and sports it is surprising to find that Boston has cricket grounds, curling rinks and even a place to practise bowling-on-the-green. The description of the examples of early American architecture in Boston by Robert Peabody Bellows was perhaps the most entertainingly written, but the appeal of the various parts of the book will depend on the individual interests of the reader. That the work has a definitely Harvard flavor can be seen by the fact that of the twenty contributors, twelve have Harvard degrees and five have served on the Harvard faculty...