Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DOROTHY HEYWARD, already known for her collaboration with her husband, Dubose Heyward, in the stage version of "Porgy," reveals in this, her first novel, a distinct gift for story-telling. The publishers call it a "spirited, sparkling tale"; such it is, and as such it will appeal to the majority of its readers. It is more improbable than most fiction, but if one discounts this feature, which may or may not be a flaw, the story is enter-taining enough for the warmest summer evening...
...chancellor, all are obtained without the use of clumsy mass-action: no wielder of rhetorical thunders. Meyer concentrates, impresses with fine delineation rather than overwhelms with sheer quantity and force. His is the method of the finished artist: but he does not let artistry crowd out the living appeal of his work, and the latter has by no means lost its vigor in the English Version...
Miss Tashman contributes some highly insinuating sex appeal which was rivaled by the considerable expenditure of the same commodity by Miss Dorsay. Mr. McLaglen himself plays a rather negative part in the midst of these pyro-technics, but he manages to come through in the end with his good humor and incidentally the fifty thousand dollars...
...which were painted subsequent to his meeting with Ruskin and on trips to Europe during 1876-78. His interest and devotion to the cause which Ruskin inaugurated will long be a recognized inspiration in the work of the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard. This exhibition will undoubtedly appeal to those of the University who knew Professor Moore and alumni returning at Commencement are especially invited to visit the Fogg Museum to see examples of his work...
...February 1928 Judge Hutcheson issued one of the very few injunctions on the side of Labor. He ordered the railroad to dissolve its company union and leave the Brotherhood alone. S. P. attorneys hastened to the Supreme Court with an appeal, claiming the Railway Labor Act was unconstitutional because it deprived their clients of "property rights" (i. e. selection of employes) without due process...