Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miki, 27, the Japanese Diet's glamor girl, is somewhat bucktoothed, but Japanese connoisseurs say she has "something of the siren in her." Explaining her election in a hotly contested Osaka district, the Nippon Times said: "Whatever she lacked in political acumen she made up amply in sex appeal." Last week, Kiyoko was having Dietary troubles: she had fallen in love with a dashing fellow delegate, Kiyoshi Kawani-shi, 28 (heir to the Kawanishi Aircraft fortune). Kawanishi already has a wife, who refuses to divorce him. In the Diet, members proposed Kiyoko's removal on grounds that...
...police headquarters, showed not only high social connections with two Radcliffe entries, but a career of draft dodging that brought in F.D.R. and Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. The latter had interceded for his draft deferment three times, calling him "indispensable to the Labor Department," and he had made an appeal to President Roosevelt's wife...
...This letter was received by a person in Cambridge who has asked the Crimson to reprint it as an appeal from Greek students to all Harvard students.) Castron Lemnos, Greece August 26th...
...build the Aragon, which features Spanish-style towers, arched balconies, and a deep blue ceiling in which stars twinkle and fleecy white clouds float around. Says Bill Karzas, who never had time to polish his English: "We think what people want, we appeal to the five senses. We give good music for ear, beautiful place for eye, fresh air for smell, good chairs for comfort, and special ice cream for taste...
Perhaps the most startled author of the week was brooding Eugene O'Neill. He has "Seraphic Sex Appeal," an artists' agent named Leora Thompson told the press. She put him in a special beauty class with Symphony Maestro Dimitri Mitropoulos, Tyrone Power, General Omar Bradley, and Irving Berlin. "It seems like a light from the cosmos shines in their eyes," said she. "Sanctified sex is what it really...