Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some years ago a Paris ugly contest was won by eminent contenders-Novelist Georges Ohnet, Critic Francisque Sarcey and M. Francois Paul Jules Grevy, one-time (1879-1887) President of the Republic. To attract entrants for this year's contest, the promoters made public speeches praising Aesop, Cicero, Socrates and other famed eyesores. Competitors soon came flocking-a fishmonger with warts; a bald female pinhead who claimed to have been in a circus; an Italian Jew with erysipelas; Mme. Grun, a scowling housewife, with photographs of a neighbor whose mouth, she vowed, would admit a whole orange; pock-marked...
...that the so called Mencken school has developed. It is perfectly natural to criticise American Rotaryism, religious Ligotry, and other popular foibles, vet whenever anyone does it, Mencken is immediately blamed or credited, because he was the first to find similar faults glaring enough to attract attention...
...creation has drawn men from other colleges and universities all over the country. This, with the Law School has come to be a truly national character. And Harvard College is progressing in the same direction, under the stimulus of the "higher seventh" entrance method, a system especially calculated to attract men from western and southern high schools...
...going to try to make money. It will seek to demonstrate to manufacturers that people who enjoy jibes at Fundamentalists, machine politics, President Coolidge and the foes of contraception, are discriminating buyers of pianos, automobiles, perfume and fine plumbing. And in a recent pamphlet designed to attract advertisers to the American Mercury, Mr. Mencken has had his shrewdest and cruelest fling of all at journalism: "The American literati of tomorrow will probably come out of advertising-offices instead of out of newspaper offices as in the past. The advertising writers, in fact, have already gone far ahead of the reporters...
Among the exhibits that will probably attract the most interest are original parts from Dickens' "Pickwick Papers," and "Christmas Books" and an inkwell, which he used. There will be two volumes printed by the Kelmscott press, that of William Morris's, which holds the reputation of having produced some of the world's finest printing. The one is "Reynard the Fox" and the other an edition of Chauncer illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones...