Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...influence on Washington politics. The Ohio-Mississippi flood had brought to the Capital an emergency atmosphere not unlike that of the early months of the New Deal. Congressmen once more hungered for Federal aid and Franklin Roosevelt resumed the prestige cf the Great White Father to whom all must appeal...
...other major music course, also possessing an appeal for beginners, is Mr. A. T. Merritt's on elementary harmony. A similar forced retrenchment will reduce this course from thirty-five to twenty. Its request for a section man has been likewise refused, a demand justified by the great abundance of rudimentary efforts at harmonizing to be examined every week. The graduate courses must also shrink in number and in volume, because the music department men have extended themselves this year in so impossible a fashion that their labor cannot be sustained...
Close on the heels of the flood disasters in Ohio and Illinois, the local organization issued an appeal for contributions of money and clothes to aid the destitute and homeless. Harvard was very generous in its response; one undergraduate gave a check for $300, and together with the donations of less charitable or affluent colleagues, about $500 in cash and quite a few clothes were received...
...Macfadden. . . . "I feel sure that it was Mr. Oursler's intention, with his great influence over Mr. Macfadden-which at times borders on hypnotism-to persuade Mr. Macfadden to pay any large or fabulous reward for the child's return, as a grand gesture which would appeal to the public and prove Mr. Macfadden as a great philanthropist, etc so Oursler had a double motive for the crime, the great publicity for Mr. Macfadden . . . also . . . the large reward paid by Mr. Macfadden. . . ." To this citation, Mrs. Macfadden's attorneys interposed a general denial...
...shrewd speculator can acquire valuable privileges by buying a seat on the Stock Exchange. Its copyright title is derived from a card game called Make a Million, in which the pack contains bull and bear cards. Jury Box is an effort to combine in practical form the sadistic appeal of crime stories with the masochistic fascination of the puzzle. It is a box of six envelopes, each of which contains a description of, and all the material necessary for, the solution of a serious crime. The host acts as district attorney, passes out evidence to his guests, who form...