Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indeed this fight is one for men's minds and the effort must be made by ideas which appeal to the aspiration of men's soul. Too many people here have not the slightest idea what they should aim at, how high a standard of living a real democracy can bring...
Ringleader Sam Carr and Freda Linton are still loose; Carr has been reported at various places in Latin America. Another of the accused, Dr. Raymond Boyer of Montreal, is out on appeal bond under sentence of two years in prison...
Miss Buck relies for throb-appeal on a blend of the Abie's Irish Rose and Cinderella themes. Peony is written in a soggy prose and stilted pidgin that suggest a kind of mimicry of Miss Buck's previous work. Her heroine, pretty Chinese bondmaid Peony, is in the service of a wealthy Jewish family, the Ezras. As such she tends flowers, serves tea, and prepares the bed of her "young master," David Ezra. It will surprise no reader to learn that behind Peony's ornamental exterior beats the passionate heart of a woman wildly in love...
...scorns the 19th Century and its romantics-Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner-and latter-day romantics like Richard Strauss. He once insisted, in a heated moment, that "Music is powerless to express anything whatsoever." As for writing like a romantic, he says: "I cannot appeal to you as a person with my music; it would embarrass...
...Publisher Crum and Editor Barnes moved into PM's modest home in the produce district of lower Manhattan, they front-paged an appeal: "Don't expect to see a new name right away, or a new format, or an entirely different typography . . . There will be many changes, but they will be gradual . . . aimed at a full coverage of news and an independent editorial policy." Translated Bart Crum: "We are absolutely uncommitted to anybody." But the policy will be left of center...