Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week London admirers of the Georgian prepared to place a plaque on the house where he had stayed. But nobody knew the exact street address. To Moscow went an appeal for information. The Kremlin's answer: Joseph Stalin had forgotten too; it was somewhere in the Whitechapel slums...
...selling trick was to keep men's cosmetics as far away from the boudoir as possible, give them a hairy-chested appeal. Hollywood's Courtley, Ltd. said gruffly: "A shaving lotion for he-men only." (But Manhattan's Faberge, Inc. was selling a cologne: "Aphrodisia for Men.") Courtley Ltd.'s bubble baths had ruddy, full-blooded titles: "Chukker," "Steeple Chase," "Irish Moss." Parfums L'Orle Inc. of Manhattan had "Buckskin" and "Touchwood" perfumes ("Just for your handkerchief, of course") at $5 an ounce. Another managed to combine the smell of "the finest cognac, cedarwood, Russian...
...ships steamed so close to the coast that a native of Guam on the Honolulu could see his house, and proposed that he and I go ashore in a rubber boat as a two-man task force to give his friends the good word. Fortunately this plan did not appeal to Admiral Ainsworth, as the native in ques- tion was an excellent cook, and his loss would have been irreplaceable...
Both women were led from the room. The five U.S. generals of the trial commission, conducting the first U.S. war-crimes trial, were thus setting a precedent; they proceeded with the utmost caution. Yamashita, who hoped to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, would be given every legal courtesy-by men who devoutly hoped to see him face a firing squad...
Levis H. Campbell III '48, newly-elected chairman of the undergraduate committee, declared yesterday that "the Administrative Board's response to our appeal for student consultation has been most encouraging. It now remains for the students to show that they are interested enough in the academic future of the College to respond to the Faculty's offer of cooperation...