Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George School is free from propaganda: "We don't make the students swallow anything they don't like and we don't mind arguments." Enrolled in the school are Communists, Republicans and in-between shades. Warring equally against land monopoly and collectivism, Georgism makes its greatest appeal to lawyers, teachers, public accountants, businessmen...
...annoyance of all parties to this agreement, a third Pittsburgh station, bustling KQV, impudently proceeded to pirate not only the broadcasts of the Pirates' out-of-town games, but of home games as well. The Pirates' owners joined NBC and its two sponsors in an appeal to the courts...
Defense Attorney Jaime Sifre Jr., whose other big clients, Fajardo Sugar Co. and Central Cambalache, Inc. are docketed for trial when the Court reconvenes in November, pondered an appeal. If he does so the Hermanos case will go to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Boston...
...which the most individual characteristic is an extraordinarily adroit and constant use of "business" to accent the comic line. Unlike Gregory La Cava (Stage Door) or Leo McCarey, whose The Awful Truth took top honors for direction at the Academy this year, Capra has no interest in jokes whose appeal is touched with neuroticism. He is sufficiently versatile to have made a successful picture from a story as fantastic as James Hilton's Lost Horizon. But as a master of pace, he is certainly no better in his department than England's enormously fat, lethargic Alfred Hitchcock (Thirty...
...audiences will have found in his troubles, his family and his friends the prototypes of their own. Such cinema families as the Hardys and Twentieth Century-Fox's Joneses are well on their way to developing for modern cinemaddicts the kind of cumulative box office appeal once exercised by old time serials. Good shot: Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) settling a quarrel between his daughter and the cook, who joins the menage halfway through the picture in a manner calculated not to offend cinemaddicts who cannot afford such luxuries...