Word: attractively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faced with the problem of decreased patronage and with the added problems of tremendous fixed charges, the industry was forced both to reduce theatre admission prices and to attempt to improve the quality of entertainment in the effort to attract more people into the theatres. To accomplish this, the producers invited the public with glamorous and more glamorous personalities. Producers discovered that the creation of such personalities was a costly process and that, moreover, once created, they were always open to the predatory raids of competing producers...
...Kress & Co. announced that they would replace the gloomy old house with the finest store in their system. But competition will be close at hand. A block up Fifth Avenue is F. W. Woolworth's famed Store No. 1000, opened in 1918 and stocked with quality goods to attract sophisticated Fifth Avenue shoppers...
...display of contraceptives in the windows of a few; the boycott of all picture galleries and museums because of the nudes in some; and of all department stores on account of exciting underwear and wax models. If the statement of the producers is true that salacious motion pictures do attract the public, isn't it the fault of the churches in not stiffening the adolescent minds to automatically reject such stuff in boredom in the same way that we automatically ignore the excreta canis in our walks down the street...
...Gomez eccentricities are neither the result of mild dementia nor a desire to attract attention. He is somewhat absentminded. Pitching against Cleveland in his first year with the Yankees, he was warned to be careful of Averill, who was on a batting rampage. At the beginning of the second inning he whispered anxiously to Catcher Dickey: "Be sure to let me know when Averill comes up." Catcher Dickey informed him that Averill had struck out in the first. The following year the Yankees were playing a crucial game against Washington; there were two men out and three on base; suddenly...
...position of the minimum control consistent with the national welfare. It is a difficult position to define, but a justifiable one. Youth is important to their purpose and even though the colleges slow majorities for Roosevelt, it should only make them work harder on a program which will attract them. A strong opposition party which bases its fight on liberty, restricted with the minimum amount of security, is important for the country. The realization that the youth are dissatisfied with their program should aid them in their reforms...