Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GUIDE BOOKS are usually rather dry accumulations of fact and description with appeal to none but the most earnest seekers after culture. Occasionally, however, a book appears containing information of such interest to the reader that one forgets the didactic tone in which it was written. Such a book is this little collaboration by members of the Prospect Union Association of Cambridge. The purpose of the volume as stated in the introduction is to be a directory of ways and means for using the leisure time of those unacquainted with Boston and its surroundings. Any student who has spent aimless...
...minimized by citizens outside the afflicted area. When the Mississippi flooded in 1927 the Red Cross quickly raised $17,000,000 by popular subscription for relief. The Drought of 1930 was left to the Red Cross to relieve with a $5,000,000 "emergency" fund and no special public appeal...
...Driving Me Crazy and He's My Secret Passion (Columbia) - Lee Morse projects an appeal which would do Helen Morgan proud...
...along with Yeats, was a leader of the Irish Renaissance. His flowing beard and imposing personality might suggest to many that he was the "Walt Whitman of Iceland." Different as the poetry of the two men is, they both have much the same magnetism and appeal. Many who are already becoming bored with too much reading period in Widener may well find some worthwhile diversion tonight on the other side of Quincy Street...
...merger terms, the Court said: Grave doubt as to the adequacy of the consideration exists. "Nothing to say. Thank you very kindly," was the only remark made by Mr. Eaton when he heard the news. Equally silent were the defeated factions who had 30 days in which to appeal, who would not likely give up until the U. S. Supreme Court heard the issue...