Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Will To Have Children, a Nazi magazine, came out in Berlin with an attack on marriage bureaus, an appeal to virile Nazi youth to speak directly for itself. The writer, Herr Doktor Paul Danzer, summed up: "Marriage bureaus have a disagreeable taste for the more sensitive young people. . . . There should be no special measures necessary to enable a decent young man to accost a girl-provided the girl makes no resistance. [Ohne besondere Massnahmen käme es dann dazu, dass der anständige junge Mann ohne Widerstand auch ein fremdes Mädchen ansprechen könnte...
...Aristomenis Mitsotakis, nephew of Greece's late Republican firebrand Eleutherios Venizelos; life imprisonment for three; one to 25 years' imprisonment for 35 others. As a special inducement the condemned men were informed that if they gave themselves up in a month they would have the right to appeal their sentences...
...effect it might have had; contempt is committed if an article "places the judge in such a position that he will never know whether he was unconsciously biased by its publication"; a case is pending and cannot be commented upon while it is still open to modification, rehearing and appeal...
...arguments having been exhausted at the demurrer hearings, the trial last week was a mere formality. The Times-Mirror Co., Publisher Chandler and Managing Editor L. D. Hotchkiss were found guilty of contempt, fined a total of $1,050. Attorney Cosgrove, preparing an appeal, warned: "If the decision. . . is sustained, freedom of the press as it is known and as it has been practiced by the journals of the nation is gone forever...
Result of an Alaskan gold prospector's spraining his ankle 28 years ago was the creation of a luxury product with an amazing consumer appeal. The prospector was Jacob Schick. Forced to lie in camp several weeks, he spent much of his time thinking up a way to make some money. Rubbing his stubby beard, he hit on the idea of a mechanical shaver. But Schick electric shavers did not appear on the market until 1931, and these first hand-made models sold at $25. Many a man began to wonder how he had got along without one. When...