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Word: appealing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the possible exception of Margaret O'Brien, Joan Caulfield is Hollywood's most sexless female luminary. Whatever she lacks in personal appeal she also lacks in acting prowess and case in front of a camera, all of which makes her presence in "Welcome Stranger" highly depressing to Bing Crosby-Barry Fitzgerald purists. There is, however, enough of Crosby at his best to make the picture melodious and entertaining, while Fitzgerald commendably limits his concessions to quaintness, a restraint which keeps "Welcome Stranger," for the most part, from waxing mawkish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/26/1947 | See Source »

Commenting on several pleas for inter-House dining privileges received recently by the CRIMSON from residents of Claverly, Dudley, Apley, and Little, Watson asserted that a similar appeal was voted down last year by Housemasters and the administration "after a long discussion during which everything was brought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Watson Sees No Extension Of Interhouse | 9/25/1947 | See Source »

...roisterous, freewheeling and often very amusing story about a four-flushing circus owner. It straddles two generations of easy-money mischief and scalps a whole zoo full of roguish characters. It is as blusteringly improbable as a W. C. Fields movie, and has some of the same appeal. Beneath the bluster, Gus the Great skillfully satirizes the great American success story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fool's Paradise Lost | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...matter how large the donation, every undergraduate should respond to the Council appeal," Goldberg said. In addition to the normal registration solicitations, the Council plans to employ every College publicity medium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Starts $25,000 Fund Drive | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Concern over the fate of Varsity morals at the hands of traditional Ivy League nonchalance has driven Gerald Spear '48, chief cheerleader, to the brink of hysteria and into the public prints in an appeal for rah-rah organizers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Megaphone Trumpets For Tyro Cheerleaders | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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