Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Day" should attract many University men to see the art collection of Mrs. J. L. Gardner at Fenway Court, Boston. This afternoon from 12 until 3 o'clock the Museum will be open exclusively for Harvard men. About 250 are expected to attend. For the past three days the general public has been admitted. Tickets are on sale at the Fogg Art Museum...
...learn that of 12,607 women "who have passed through Oxford" only 657 have married. He concluded that the rest were hardhearted. The principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, denied the charge. Miss Underwood of the Women's Freedom League retaliated that there was little in marriage to attract highly educated women. And Dr. Joshish Oldfield agreed that brainless women make the best wives...
...unloaded at the wharves. Then in little wide rooms, perhaps with the persuasion of a revolver, the purchaser gladly pays $50 a case for the liquor. Brazen daring, cool savoir faire, are essentials in the successful applicant. . . . Perhaps these rum fleets serve a useful purpose--at any rate they attract the riff-raff of law-breakers and give the city police a needed rest...
McAdoo. The McAdoo boom, which is already under way, is founded on his popularity with the railroad workers, whom he made prosperous during the war, and on his liberal policies, which are expected to attract the farmers. His followers are widespread and vociferous. Several years ago he was immortalized in the following lines: " The Who, pre-eminently Who, Is William Gibbs, the McAdoo, A man of high Intrinsic Worth, The Greatest Son-in-Law on Earth. With all the burdens thence accruing...
...attract attention," "Don't block traffic," "Don't argue," "Always obey the police," were the main instructions to pickets. These tactics, in regular use in the garment unions, are in marked contrast to the provocative and often violent methods employed by less educated and intelligently led unions...