Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vital part of the statistical matter lies in the fact that Economics is the second most popular subject at Princeton, and that it vies with History for the second place here. That Economics should have such appeal as a subject for concentration is a refutation of the theory of our fathers that Economics as taught in college may be interesting enough, but that the scientific ideals are of no use to the hard-boiled financier. Undergraduates would not specialize in something which they considered mere valueless theory...
Oregon. So sure felt Senator Charles McNary of renomination on May 16 that he did not bother to cross the continent to his State to make a direct appeal for votes...
Maurice E. Connolly, onetime president of Queens (one of New York City's five boroughs), convicted of fat fraud in sewer contracts (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), lost his appeal, went to jail for a year. Said he: "Why make a Mardi Gras of it? ... the public loves a victim. . . . I'll serve my sentence with a clear conscience. . . . I'll read a whole bagful of good literature I brought over with...
...defense, it often serves to reduce damages, both compensatory and punitive.* Last week the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court took from Retraction much of its potency, by ruling that it could not be accepted in mitigation of compensatory damages. In so ruling the court upheld the appeal of William H. Kehoe from a verdict of 6? damages against the New York Herald Tribune.†He had sued for a compensatory $100,000. In 1926 the Herald Tribune published a story stating that one William Kehoe, onetime Manhattan corporation counsel and city official who had been convicted...
...with his brother, who tried to buy her off, and partly for the money. Goulding's dialog has shopworn stretches, but much of it is convincing and subtle. He has varied cinematic formulas enough to make The Devil's Holiday artistically effective, but not enough to impair its popular appeal. It remains a program picture, but a far better one than the average. Best shot: Nancy Carroll's thoughts about her husband revealed to the audience by a slip of the tongue when she is back in a Chicago hotel room trying to get drunk on champagne...