Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his sons, Albert and Conrad, as assistants. His intentions were to reduce, in clinic, skeletal deformities by manipulative surgery similar to his operation in Chicago 19 years before on Lolita Armour. He was world-famed for his technique; would do much good to some cripples; would attract medical and surgical students to his amphitheatre, students who might later attend his Viennese clinics to his legitimate profit as a teacher. But the press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics. He was their Messiah. Back...
...irreproachable Lysistrata, and managed to interpret tellingly M. Dantchenko's conception of La Perichole as a child who grows up into a woman through the stress of passion, instead of clinging to the convention which would reduce her to the level of a cheerful strolling band which happened to attract the Viceroy from Madrid...
Tenor Beniamino Gigli, in a blue smock, stood in "Magic City"-a metropolis erected in gold and crimson papier-mache in the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan. Caroling snatches of famous arias to attract the pennies of the crowd, he sold leather novelties for charity...
Under these conditions it is not surprising that some of those persons who are always looking for a chance to commercialize a popular thing should have turned their attention to football. They are working on the theory that if college football will attract between 50,000 and 80,000 persons at from $2 to $3 apiece, games played by professional players who have made fine records on the college field will draw attendances which will net them good returns on their investments. They point to professional baseball as an example...
Oxford has failed completely to attract the type of American student who was common in the German universities before the war, partly because of the coastlines of an Oxford education and partly because the university does not readily give nor highly honor the degree of Doctor of Philosophy so much prized by the American teaching profession...