Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting today, P. B. H. workers will embark on their semi-annual old clothing and textbook drive which will last until June 3. A special appeal is being made for cast-off clothing to be distributed by the Cambridge Family Welfare service...
...September 1935 that United's Patterson went to competitors with his appeal: "United we fly, divided we los.e money." Six months later United, Transcontinental & Western Air, American, Eastern and Pan American signed a contract, crux of which was that for 18 months none of them would invest in any four-motored air transport between the gross weights of 43,500 lb. and 68,500 lb., other than DC-4. These lines advanced Douglas comparatively little for the experiment. Nine-tenths of the expenses, which DC-4 will have to pay back by selling itself,* have come...
...believe everything that everybody tells them. Today the nation is beset on all sides by people and interests of every shade and color, bent on selling them something--be it an idea for the economic salvation of the nation or a simple old-fashioned gold brick. The appeal to people's emotions is often so subtly made that decisions of momentous importance to the nation are governed by whim and whimsy, simply because clever propaganda deprives people of their power to reason and think...
Intended to the entirely personal in appeal to the Deacons, the articles and photographs deal with typically house activities such as the Tuesday afternoon teas at Professor and Mrs. Clark's. There will be several pages devoted to quasi-fiction, in which reference will be made to different house members...
...Dietrich. Mae West. Joan Crawford, Kay Francis. Katharine Hepburn. Edward Arnold. Fred Astaire. The reason: These highly-publicized great ones were "poison at the box office." "WAKE UP." screamed the theatre owners to Hollywood's producers. "Practically all of the major studios are burdened with stars-whose public appeal is negligible-receiving tremendous salaries . . . Garbo, for instance . . . does not help theatre owners in the U. S. . . . Kay Francis . . . still receiving many-thousands a week ... is now making B pictures. . . . Dietrich, too. is poison at the box office...