Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Alf Landon had had an early lead in polls. In 1928, the whole U. S. turned out to see Al Smith roll by, with cigar, brown derby, wisecracks, East S:dese ard all. As one sad Old Guardsman pontificated to another: dead whales on flat cars also attract crowds...
Originally WOR feared that the program would attract no volunteers, was soon assuaged in a homely rush. Tactful but frank, Fitzgerald & Willis let the ladies discuss their own drawbacks, are always hopeful even when confronted with a clock-stopping face. Typical guinea-pig comment: "I hate to be homely. My mother's good-looking . . . and it makes me feel like such a lummox...
...almost as fond of culture as of aquatics, it has seldom worked up any real enthusiasm for the legitimate drama. Few shows have ever played profitably in the town, and the successful ones usually included in their casts such stars as Katharine Cornell and Helen Hayes, who could attract an audience in the Mojave Desert. When Hollywood stars return to the boards for a lark, they do so not in Hollywood but on Broadway and in the better-class barns of the straw-hat circuit...
...around the President are sev eral groups, reflecting the uses he has for them, and his personal liking. Those who attract his mind are usually those who fight a brilliant kind of intellectual guerrilla warfare which their opponents call outright unscrupulous. All are New Dealers to the core-which perhaps explains Mr. Roosevelt's refusal up to now to surrender one jot of the New Deal in the interest of Defense. Yet, Harry Hopkins again excepted, the President's warm, confiding friendliness is reserved for men who are comfortably conservative, cautious, even stodgy by the standards...
...individual drawings are required in the complete design of the light tanks.* . . . The problem of machine tools, which is fundamental to the entire defense program, is another point where . . . it may seem that little or nothing is being done. . . . The kind of work involved does not, of course, attract headlines. Very definite progress is being made. . . . Through the unlimited cooperation of the [machine tool] industry . . . I am able to report that the huge planers and millers need to work armor plate particularly, for the expanded naval program will be available on time...