Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Browns was generally regarded as a master stroke on the part of shrewd General Manager Branch Rickey of the Browns' National League rivals, the highly successful St. Louis Cardinals. The St. Louis park in which both Cardinals and Browns play belongs to the Ball estate. The Cardinals, who attract bigger crowds on tour than they do at home, have long wanted to play night games, permissible in their league. Because night games have been banned in the American League, the owners of the Browns refused to install lights. Last week, by threatening not to buy and improve the team...
...about the same grade and value. If present developments continue, the C.I.O. may embrace all vertical unions, leaving the crafts to the Federation. While the horizontal unions now have some 2,500,000 members, there are 23,000,000 workers whom the A.F. of L. has failed to attract at all along craft lines, and presumably these men will join industrial unions. While the American Federation of Labor is left with one tenth of the eligible workers, the C.I.O. gets the res, and in view of the comparative sizes the desertion of the Federation is not the same as knifiing...
Tallyho! And the hounds are off in full pursuit of Mrs. Simpson. Men, women and ministers of the gospel, and not a kindly thought from any of them! Too attractive a lady to find friends among the women, too intelligent to arouse the sympathy of the men, and too frankly honest to attract the clergy...
Young Mr. Hirschmann banded together a non-profit organization of music lovers called the New Friends of Music, Inc., announced that they would run this winter a series of 16 concerts devoted to the more erudite chamber music and songs of Brahms and Beethoven. To attract sincere music lovers and discourage the carriage trade, they held their prices down to $1.10 top, promised to get not the most noted performers but the most competent. Old hands predicted ruefully that they would run aground. Last week when the New Friends opened the doors of New York's big Town Hall...
Taken all in all, Mr. Howard's Hamlet is a production fit to rank with best, and undoubtedly one that will attract more than ordinary attention...