Word: attractiveful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attract and hold the attention of the casual reader is no mean task in these days when there is so much to attract the attention and divert the mind, and the advertising man must either consciously or unconsciously be something of a psychologist in order that he may work out just the right appeal to interest the particular group of people to whom his advertising campaign is directed...
...Arthur Conan Doyle will undoubtedly attract wide interest in his series of lectures on spiritualism; and almost as surely, he will attract a large amount of criticism. For spiritualism, almost more than any other subject, has been exploited for long centuries; in Sir Arthur's wake there will almost certainly spring up a number of fraudulent mediums. This is apparently an evil which necessarily accompanies any kind of popular interest in an idea difficult to understand. In which last category all new ideas fall; the astrologers, phrenologists, palmists, and quack doctors who pursue their business profitably even in this 'enlightened...
...hope for a generation ago. The trouble lies not with the men who play it but with those who do not--those who are so largely influenced by newspapers. If less space was given to football, if the daily papers treated is like other college sports, it would not attract the attention that it does, and would not now be the "momentous" question you make...
Professor Santayana's recently published "Soliloquies in England" (Scribner) ought to attract Harvard men--particularly those who remember the criticism of undergraduate life which this author made in his "Character and Opinion in the United States...
This, Mr. Baker said, was an opportunity for the college man. His education has given him the taste for true art and has enabled him to produce plays of artistic value which will attract the public. The speaker used "Liliom", a recent Theatre Guild production as an example...