Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though the struggle goes on for at least another half-year. In the opposing lineups the Theatre Workshop seems to rate the edge for a power struggle. The Veterans outnumber the HDC in total active membership and particularly in the number of stellar performers they seem able to attract. They also seem to have a consistent monopoly on ambition, with their tackling of the scenic and casting problems of "Joan" and "Henry" as opposed to the Dramatic Club's sketchy "Lefty" and proposed bare-stage production of "Enemy of the People." On the other side of the line...
...Smyrna, Ga., the Rev. George Almiran Gaines, 34, announced that he was in the third week of a four-week fast. He hoped to attract attention to his campaign for $9,000 to finish making the down payment on a $66,000 mansion to be used as an orphanage. The mansion was once owned by former movie star Colleen Moore. Said Mr. Gaines: "I have fasted many times before. I have never fasted for anything that God has not given...
From one point of view Mr. Wallace would be making a mistake by offering specific remedies. It is a political axiom that, if he expects to attract large following, a politician must offer only the most general kind of program, to which various individuals can give their own interpretations. So long as Mr. Wallace attacks Administration policy, without proposing a particular alternative, he can appeal to all those who share his disapproval of the course currently being followed by the government. Once he offers a detailed program of his own, he will retain the support only of those who happen...
...Soldiers Field tonight, he will be speaking as a private citizen. It is a striking tribute to the vitality and appeal of his ideology that, although he has no official standing and no claim to prominence other than as a member of the Fourth Estate, he is able to attract large and enthusiastic audiences wherever he speaks, and has become the symbol of all that is distasteful to Russophobes, isolationists, the Un-American Activities Committee, and the Old Guard of both parties...
...college days and of his life as a successful doctor to the rich of Chicago. Finally, it records his return to the faith of his father, as he departs from the big city to minister again to the good people of the land. Money, sex--all the usual temptations--attract Joseph Taylor, Jr., on his journey through Vanity Fair...