Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dancing Mothers. No doubt Alice Joyce, Conway Tearle and Norman Trevor will attract their worshipers no matter what the play. This one is last year's stage play about a mother who decided to shame her daughter by dancing faster and drinking more. In the movies it is even worse...
...poetry the new professorship makes provision for men of ability in the cultural arts of music, painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as in the rhythms of language. Professor Murray of Oxford, an authority on the Greek drama, is of the type which the chair was designed to attract...
...University of Texas, $1,400,000- for an astronomical observatory to bear the donor's name. Dean Harry Yandell Benedict, Professor of Astronomy, declared: "This gift will make the name of Mr MacDonald as imperishable as the science of astronomy itself and will attract scientists who will spread Mr. MacDonald's name to every part of the world...
...Millrose A. A. games are the outstanding feature of America's indoor season, and will attract a great field of stars from both this country and Europe. One German champion, one Dutch star, and two men from the Scandinavian countries are on the list of entries...
...cultural heritage of the new Japan is identical with that of the old, Europe has played the unsuccessful alchemist, in stirring things up without changing their nature. Japan, with her numbers and her new activity, must now attract the social student, as a portent rather than a prey...