Word: attractively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Claire Windsor to stand back of the counter in the Post Building and present each advertiser with a cabbage. The result was a Sunday paper of one hundred and forty six pages, sixty of which carried nothing but classified advertisements. And when the Post hired tight rope walkers to attract Denver to its office, and shunted fifty old automobiles down a mountain while barkers gave their leather lungs to Bonfils' glory, victory was assured...
Fifi Vollard would not then, as he does not now, raise a finger to attract a customer or sell a canvas but occasionally he moved quickly. As soon as Cézanne died Fifi hopped a train for Aix, bought the entire contents of Cézanne's studio, loaded it on a handcart and pushed off for the station. The last canvas came hustling through an open window from the hands of the bereaved family just in time for him to make his train. The War closed the doors of the Rue Laffitte shop. The Impressionists grew...
...like a novel. In It Was the Nightingale he has "employed every wile known to me as novelist-the time-shift, the progression d'effet, the adaptation of rhythms to the pace of the action." Author Ford's well-known three-dotty style is not likely to attract many new 'readers at this late date. But his faithful followers will find the entertainment they expect, though they may be hard put to extract from it much essential information about the author which they had not already gathered...
...leading article in the November issue of Harper's is entitled the "Supreme Court and the New Deal." It is one of the most interesting and stimulating of the speculations which the moves of the NRA have induced, and in its original mode of attack, it is sure to attract attention from many classes. Mr. Hitchell commences by pointing out the evident fact that the success of the NIRA depends on the decision of the Supreme Court, when that body is eventually faced with a test case. He then proceeds to discuss the philosophy, life, and opinions of the judges...
Proponents of 150-pound football refuse for the second time to be silenced by the discouraging pronunciamento of the H.A.A., and their petition for the revival of a lightweight squad continues to attract names testifying to the numerical strength of their cause. As expressed by Mr. Bingham, the foremost point in the opposition is the failure to get any competition other than the final game with Yale. Considering the number of eligible institutions in the immediate vicinity, and the opportunities afforded by eight House teams, all within calling distance, it seems that some part of the managerial board is fallen...