Word: attractively
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Norton upon the "Assos Expedition," and Prof. Paine's piano-forte recital, both come on Thursday evening at 7.30. Many would, no doubt, wish to see both. If, however, they come off the same night, the popularity of Prof. Paine (together with the fact that seats are free) will attract many who would otherwise go to hear Prof. Norton. Cannot Prof. Paine's recital be changed to Friday evening, as originally announced, thus giving all a chance to hear both the lecture and the recital...
...Sorosis was omitted when Anacreon's "Phusis" gave beauty to women, and with truly feminine ingenuity she had adopted another method outside the sphere of Nature to attract the masculine attention so dear to her sex. Instead of making the most of her gifts and making her defects as unnoticeable as possible, she subordinated the former to an exaggeration of the latter. Her husband had "struck oil" in Pennsylvania, and had then subsided into a submissive check-signer and reader of the daily papers, a mythical kind of power-behind-the-throne known as "Mrs. De Sorosis' husband...
...schools are determined to attract attention. This time, it is the catalogue of the Boston University Law School which has been received by every senior...
...sake of humanity we hope that the wishes they have expressed for the speculators may not be realized. The anger of those who find themselves thus disappointed in their plans is not to be wondered at. The instant that any amusement is announced that is probable to attract the fellows, some men put themselves on the alert to reap the greatest possible pecuniary advantage from the general enthusiasm. Every one is willing to help needy fellow-students, but would greatly prefer to do it in some other way. Let us have an end of this practice of "cornering;" we have...
...recent criticism on Goldsmith says of his writings : "They will long attract us by their urbanity and intellectual hospitality - traits that were none too freqment among the contemporaries of Goldsmith, nor for that matter, even among the contemporaries of Carlyle, Freeman and Ruskin...