Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Providing an excellent handbook of American and English short story, as well as a priceless volume for the traveler, Edward J. O'Brien's recently published collection entitled. "The Best Short Stories of 1937" is a book of unlimited appeal merely because every reader no matter how fastidious he is in his choice of lighter reading may find within its covers several stories which satisfy his tastes...
...appeal the Florida State Supreme Court threw out the convictions on the ground that evidence on a conspiracy count had been admitted after the conspiracy count was dropped. A second trial, this time on charges of second-degree murder, opened in Bartow last fortnight. Following the dictates of the higher court Judge Dewell ruled out all evidence leading up to the time the victims were released at the police station. Thus the prosecution had to build its case on the recollections of the two survivors, Eugene F. Poulnot, head of the Florida Workers' Alliance, and Samuel R. Rogers...
...Blum, which is an actual Socialist party and polled most votes in the national election last year, has not repeated this triumph in the local balloting. This meant that the French "New Deal," introduced under M. Blum when he became Premier in 1936, has now lost the wide appeal it had at first. French voters seem predominantly satisfied by the way in which Premier Chautemps has sidetracked the New Deal at the point of radical progress it had reached when the Blum Cabinet fell (TIME, June 28 et seq.). This policy canny M. Chautemps calls "the pause...
Juiciest bait in President Gates's appeal for funds for a bigger and better University of Pennsylvania is a plan to build a small experimental college and athletic fields in Valley Forge, 22 miles from the noisy city campus on Walnut Street. To start with 50 freshmen, the tiny college I will instruct selected students by the tutorial method mainly in American history, government and English for a fee of about $1,250 a year. Other drive aims: strengthening the faculty, more money for research, more scholarships, new chemistry and library buildings, extension of the museum...
...countrymen to play the golddigger for Polish freedom, responded to Napoleon's assault courtship by really falling in love. First meetings however, found her at least as full of politics as passion, and for the story s sake, Marie's political acumen matched her high-minded sex appeal. Cold-blooded ugly Minister of Police Fouche alternated between trying to frame her and suggesting she marry the Emperor. Aristocratic, wily Talleyrand gave her an even worse time. Josephine counted on Marie's withdrawal when she discovered that ''one may have too much of Bonaparte...