Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoyable talkies we have been privileged to see since the advent of that form of motion picture. The story of the play, unfamiliar to but few veteran theatre-goers, is skillfully and subtly handled so that its transformation to the silver screen is attended by virtually no loss of appeal, dramatic or human...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh to the shy, poetic daughter of an Ambassador; James Joseph Tunney to an outdoorish girl descended from one of the great steel families-not the least startling was the marriage of John Gilbert, ballyhooed by millions of shopgirls as the greatest living exponent of male sex appeal, to Ina Claire (TIME, May 20). It was particularly startling because up to the moment when their marriage was announced Gilbert was supposed to be betrothed to Greta Garbo, the greatest living exponent of female sex appeal, and Miss Claire to Scenario Writer Gene Markey. She had known Gilbert...
...death house the condemned Rabano refused to appeal for a commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment...
Most of us belong on the main road. The scholars, the artists, the artisans, and the adventurers do not. They are a small minority, but they are a very important minority. I appeal for them because it is more important to our civilization that one potential artist like Shelley, one scholar like Gibbon, one artisan like Edison, one adventurer like Lindbergh, be kept out of college than that a thousand more incipient junior executives, Ph.D. candidates, and museum curators...
...leading radio manufacturers has just issued an appeal through the newspapers urging the public to protest against the plan to prohibit broadcasting of professional boxing matches and baseball games, which is being seriously considered by the magnates of these sports. Apart from the loss of enjoyment to thousands of people who could not possibly attend the games in person, such a course reveals an uneasiness in the minds of the promoters that seems strangely inconsistent with the reports of clamorous demands for seats at the coming World's Series and of a very gratifying gate at a fight between contenders...