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Word: appealing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sayings ("Experience . . . is simply the name men give to their mistakes"; "I can resist everything except temptation"). It has some of the best fooling and chatter that Wilde, a master of both, ever wrote. It brings to high life a touch of style and more than touch of snob appeal. All this pleasantly gilds its tale of a Woman with a Past who Lady Windermere, not knowing it was her own mother, thought was carrying on with her husband; .and who smirched her reputation a second time to save her daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...live groups, some of the members of whom are refugees from the BVDeed Football Band have been serenading themselves and others for several weeks from a variety of locations. The two beat section, The Harvard Banana Orchestra (the band with appeal) featuring "Hot Lips" Loring, "Slush Pump" Pines, and "Spanker" Spencer holds forth on Wednesday evenings. The Gillespieites under "Rebop" Whitehouse give out on Thursdays. Holden Chapel, a building which has seen nearly everything during its two hundred and two years of existence is destined for at least one new sight when these two groups introduce it to le jazz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...University has made none of its usual appeal for attendance monitors, but the cause was merely an overflow of volunteers rather than doubt about the present system, said Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monitors Due to Descend on Lecture Halls, Labs This Week | 10/22/1946 | See Source »

Paris they fight for an arrangement which will allow Yugoslavia to dominate Trieste. In Berlin they carry on a continued press campaign against the Western World but ban our newspapers from their sector if they contain the slightest criticism of Soviet policy. . . . They always appeal to the Potsdam accord when it serves their ends and violate it when it suits their purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Continent In Travail: EUROPE'S HOPE: (Dr. Niebuhr's Report) | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Every kind of subject matter is wanted, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library and chairman of the Massachusetts division of the campaign, said in a letter of Faculty members, although ordinary text-books and books of purely local or popular appeal are less desirable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Collections for Overseas Open Today | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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