Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens. The 22,000 Chamorros of Guam and 16,000 Polynesians of Samoa have been governed by men (Navy governors), not by law. Congress has never provided a constitution for either place. Classed only as "U.S. nationals," their peoples have had no inalienable Bill of Rights, no appeal to federal courts...
...Imperfect Lady (Paramount) is the spirited daughter (Teresa Wright) of a late-Victorian shopkeeper (Reginald Owen). Touring with a dancing troupe against papa's wishes, she meets and falls in love with Ray Milland, who tries to appeal to the audience going & coming: he is standing for Parliament as a Liberal, and he is the brother of a lord (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After the young people are married, it develops that Teresa has been mixed up with a hot-tempered Spanish concert pianist (Anthony Quinn) whom the police suspect of murder. If she furnishes his alibi...
...doubt when this colossus was first conceived it seemed the epitome of box office appeal-a Western to end all Westerns, with plentiful portions of Sex to attract most of the less bloodthirsty patrons. Tossed into this menage were a threesome of Hollywood's more expensive thespians-Jennifer Jones as a half-breed done up in some brownish makeup and a number of rather low-necked costumes; Joseph Cotten and Gregory Peck as a couple of millionaire ranchowner's sons, one all good, the other all bad. A flock of other high-priced pieces of cinema talent help...
...Pasadena, Calif., 33 white-haired members of the W.C.T.U., led by one Mrs. Jessie Lee Cowie, 87, marched right into the town's bars with a hymn-singing, placard-waving appeal to the "better natures" .of drinkers. The customers paid little heed...
...best-selling Out of the Night (1941), was jugged (and then released) as an undesirable alien (1942), served with the armed forces in the Pacific, and finally became a U.S. citizen last January, was still roller-coastering. In New Haven, Conn., the U.S. Attorney went to court to appeal the order giving him citizenship...