Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malta and Prime Minister Baron Strickland. During the War, doughty John Miller, roughest hooligan anglophobe, had to be locked up with German and Austrian prisoners. Last week Mr. Miller proved that his hate of Britain has not cooled. He attacked the prime minister as he entered the Court of Appeal, fired one shot point blank and two others as he struggled with police. All shots missed...
...ladies and ladylike gentlemen who read Vogue were disturbed to read in the May 24 issue of that famed semimonthly fashion chart the following appeal: "Constantly we have to face the problem presented by newspaper publishers, department stores and advertising art services who use or adapt Vogue cover designs, illustrations, decorations or other material and offer it to the public as their own without asking our permission. . . We are asking our readers to help us detect these flagrant violations of a fundamental and well-understood law. If you observe any Vogue cover design ... or other material reproduced in any magazine...
...part of students. Students are really becoming true to their name. With this increase of individual faithfulness, it is clear that there runs also a deepened confidence in the worth of all the processes of the human mind. The methods and conclusions which we call rational make a stronger appeal. These methods and conclusions, to which many factors contribute, seem also to give a certain world-mindedness to the whole student body. As a result a greater number of students are going to foreign universities and a large number of foreign students are coming to the American...
...There is hardly a regiment in Italy in which other Americans are not being held. Some of them are terrorized. They have relatives there who appeal to them not to say anything lest dire punishment be visited upon them...
whose striking political philosophizing earned the praise of Liberals everywhere. Backed by the Straights (Mrs. Straight was also a founder of the Junior League), Mr. Croly began editing The New Repub lic in November 1914. Its appeal was almost immediate. To. enlightened young men emerging from college, unwilling to immerse themselves entirely in their professions or industries, it offered repeated, cultivated doses of broadmindedness, enquired with dignified persistence into the affairs of the Commonwealth. In the editorial office sat "H. C.." smoking incessantly, speaking in a voice scarcely above a whisper, writing with the great caution and difficulty...