Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dramatic Club discovered the impracticality of hiring a downtown theater when it had to appeal to every friendly wallet after plummeting into debt in its production of "The Survivors" at the Plymouth Theater last spring...
Cambridge City Councilman Hyman Pill struck his traditional blow for the Man in the Street yesterday. Councilman Pill issued his fifteenth annual appeal that the city manager purchase land near police headquarters for construction of a public comfort station...
With M.N.R. once more on the march, Hertzog's ministers pleaded with him to stay. Hertzog's unhappy answer: "Gentlemen, I appeal to your human feelings to let me go." During the month or two that the 62-year-old President planned to rest in the lower altitudes of northwest Bolivia's yungas (valleys), elegant, easygoing Vice President Mamerto Urriolagoitia would take over at the palace. Many Bolivians feared that Dr. Hertzog's patient might not live to see his return...
...Berle's success on television is a curious byproduct of repeated flops in both radio and movies-a special irony for pushy Milton Berle, who has lived his life to feed what he calls "my great want to conquer." The flops hurt deeply and worried him about his appeal to a mass audience. But they forced him into well-paid jobs in nightclubs, where live audiences kept his talents supple. Meanwhile, more successful comedians were falling into the lazier habit of peering at scripts through spectacles...
Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, who talks with a bit of a brogue picked up during 21 years in Ireland (eleven of them as Chief Rabbi), flew to the U.S. as Chief Rabbi of Israel, to help with the $250 million fund-raising campaign of the United Jewish Appeal...