Word: attracted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...major assets of Nevada even though I passed through at one time I notice you have a report of my passage in the March 8 issue-"The first white man to enter Nevada passed on through"-"most important people passed through." Since the Senate has resolved to attract a more substantial citizenry I, and the other members of my profession, will find it exceedingly difficult to reject such a hospitable invitation. Perhaps we could be induced to hold our next annual convention in Reno...
Sometimes advance ballyhoo for a movie can hurt it. The press agents for "Maid of Salem" have made a reputation that the picture cannot live up to. Those who go because the previews attract them will be disappointed, the more's the pity because the show is a good one. It is not a study of witchcraft and bigotry in an isolated community nor is it a picture of life in Colonial New England. It is simply a good adventure story with clean, true love surmounting a series of exciting perils...
...best paper of that class to which the Examiner belongs -that class which appeals to the people and which depends for its success upon enterprise, energy and a certain startling originality and not upon the wisdom of its political opinions or the lofty style of its editorials. . . Illustrations attract the eye and stimulate the imagination of the masses and materially aid the comprehension of an unaccustomed reader and thus are of particular importance to that class of people which the Examiner claims to address...
...Nevada passed on through. That was in 1775. Most important people who have entered Nevada in the 162 intervening years have also passed on through. Last week in Carson City, smallest of State capitals (population 1,596), Nevada's Assembly seconded its Senate in a resolution designed to attract more substantial people to Nevada more permanently...
Because the world's heavyweight boxing champion is supposed to be able to thrash any unarmed human, fights between big men often attract huge crowds which know nothing about prizefighting. Bouts between lightweights (135 Ib.) appeal chiefly to connoisseurs of fighting. Last week, two lightweights, neither of whom had any claim to the championship of the class, fought 15 rounds in New York's Madison Square Garden. When they finished, the most sophisticated fight crowd of the season agreed that, judged according to the bloody esthetics of pugilism, the affair deserved a niche among ring classics...