Word: attracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazine's most necessary assets is an attractive appearance, and the Advocate has come through on that, too. David Self's fresh Spring-issue cover will probably attract more buyers at the Mass. Ave. news-stands than any other feature. Stuart Welch's drawings, especially one of an old vintage car, make the inside of the book interesting as well as attractive, while the absence of formal lines on the title page and the use of a little more white space throughout help the make-up a great deal. The postwar Advocate is on the right track...
...chancellor was already in full swing. A group of us who were united in our opposition to the Nazis decided that we should do something about it. We started off with what was called Haus und Hof propaganda: invading the courtyards of apartment houses with guitars and accordions to attract attention, then making speeches while others went from door to door passing out mimeographed sheets with our youthful interpretations of the political situation. This kind of anti-Hitler propaganda was forbidden even under the Papen regime...
Stuart Allen was not the kind of teenager to attract either attention or popularity in St. Joseph (Mo.) Central High School. He was too selfconscious, too meticulously dressed, too fussily precise in his speech. His sophomore classmates thought of him simply as a grind with honor grades and a grind's liking for music, books and such unfashionable pastimes as mah-jongg...
Last week he was riding the crest of popularity. For the first time since he entered the White House, he was consistently able to attract strong men to his Administration (General George Marshall, W. Averell Harriman, Lewis Douglas, et al.). No one could accuse him of using ambassadorships to pay off political debts...
...live with her sister,"Aunt Lizzie" Herlihy, in Allston, Mass. He was a scrawny kid, all arms, legs and adenoids. The tough little Micks in his new neighborhood took one look at his pinched, birdlike face, nicknamed him "Twit," and let him play alone. To pass time - and attract attention - Johnny started juggling whatever came to hand. "That," says Fred, "was my first and biggest mistake." At six, he had performed his way into St. Anthony's choir, rose to be a Wise Man in the Christmas play. His first stage lines: "Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume breathes...