Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With $9500 already banked, the Harvard Committee for German Refugees will wind up its drive for funds by sending out an appeal to the Alumni," said Phillip Ragby, Secretary last evening...
...once-attractive woman. But Outward Bound comes off better than "well-preserved," still retains its humor, imaginativeness, suspense and its more elusive quality of "theatre." Profound, or even provocative, it never was; the play is effective just because it treats the idea of death simply, concretely, familiarly. The appeal of Playwright Sutton Vane's imagination is not its incandescence or daring, but its deep kinship with Everyman...
...Southern farm folk sat ill at ease one night last week, waiting for the big moment. It came late in the evening-at 9:30 p. m. Most of the farmers' kids were already asleep when Willard C. ("Parson") Teague, chief editorial writer of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, leaned toward the microphone and drawled out the name of the landowner-sweepstakes winner for 1938 in the "C. A.'s" Plant-to-Prosper campaign. Looking completely confused and happy, grey-haired Farmer H. L. Majure of Poplar Grove. Ark. made his way to the platform and was handed...
...newspapers would think it worth-while to run contests among a population group in which only 2% regularly read the papers, but the Commercial Appeal ("Largest Circulation in the South"-now around 126,000) is not out for immediate gains. Its late, revered Publisher Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, who died in 1926, never tired of preaching that the South would progress only when it taught its farmers to diversify their crops, raise most of their own food. That is the key-note of the Plant-to-Prosper campaign, started in 1933 by the Commercial Appeal now promoted also...
...under the general head of politics, economics and the social sciences. In this enormous mass of books -good, bad, ponderous, specialized, dull, exciting, original, confused, confusing-a few stand head & shoulders above rivals in their respective fields. Some emerge from the year's crowd by their wide popular appeal, a few because of their unquestionable literary significance, still fewer because they offer contributions of importance to the consequential issues of the modern world. Outstanding titles...