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Word: appealing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After all-dear sophisticated TIME-Mr. Errol Flynn is one of those rare souls, who does not have to act, to have the feminine population positively swooning at his feet! All he has to do is-be Errol Flynn-he simply shouts masculine appeal so shame on your severe criticism of The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex [TIME, Nov. 13]. Accent on sex-Errol Flynn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Early this week Finland made the last desperate gesture of a hard-pressed Government. It appealed to the League of Nations to intercede. Professing bewilderment, Soviet Russia informed the League of Nations that she regarded Finland's appeal as "unfounded," declaring that she was maintaining "peaceful relations" with the "People's Government" of Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Arise, Finland! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Notice that Jimmy says that arrangements and showmanship plus musicianship are necessary if a band is to have real popular appeal. From hearing the band three different times this week at the Southland. I think that it ranks with Jimmy Dorsey as being the best all around band in the country. And at a great many things, it shades Dorsey. I can remember very few times when I got as big a kick from just the way a band played its music as I did from such things as Lunceford's rendition of the Beethovan Sonata Pathetique. The band puts...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

...boss of A. F. of L. labor in Hollywood studios and a potent figure in the U. S. entertainment industry. Sum of Columnist Pegler's findings was that in 1922 Willie Bioff was convicted of pandering, got a six-month jail sentence and $300 fine, lost an appeal, served only eight days of his sentence. Reported also were dirty details about a brothel on Chicago's South Halsted Street, including the specific information (from testimony) that on a single day a prostitute named Bernice Thomas received 13 men, through a hired hand passed $29 of her earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweet Willie | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Onetime Senior Lord of Appeal Lord Dunedin celebrated his goth birthday with cocktails in his Sloane Street home. Guests viewed the film His Lordship took in the Black Forest (Germany) last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Life in England | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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