Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ogle will attract chief attention. There are two reasons. His is the first speaking voice of the day after the Sheriff of Middlesex County has called the meeting and the Chairman of the Board of Preachers has spoken in prayer. Also Ogle will talk in Latin, as was always the custom in casting greetings on behalf of the Class...
...seems obvious that in a large University which represents a fairly good cross-section of every type of persons and ideals there can exist war-minded men and peace-minded men. The militarists will attract no such large gathering as the pacifists, as was proved by the small gathering of the Boston mass meeting in Fenway Park two days...
...last weeks were carefully subdivided into groups: PEERS, GENTLEMEN and MEN; PEERESSES, LADIES and WOMEN. The Duke of Norfolk's office issued precise directions for their use: every two hours, Gentlemen Ushers of the Gold Rod would pass watchfully up & down the stands. Peers, gentlemen and men should attract the ushers' attention by raising the hands (but not snapping the fingers) and would be escorted to their respective stations...
What he had been describing was a fight between onetime World Heavyweight Champion Max Adelbert Baer and a stolid 23-year-old Welshman named Tommy Farr. For winning decisively, becoming the first British heavyweight to attract international attention since Phil Scott (retired 1931), Farr got a purse of $15,000, offers of fights with Walter Neusel, Bob Pastor, John Henry Lewis, Max Schmeling...
...week opened the first one-man show of 32-year-old Artist Cadmus. Around the walls sailors tousled their trollops, perverts beckoned from a cafeteria washroom, sagbellied Babbitts diddled in Y.M.C.A. locker rooms, slatterns rioted on public beaches, for these are the principal aspects of U. S. life that attract Artist Cadmus attention, and he shrewdly draws and crudely colors them...