Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Man Savidge: "I was vain enough to be pleased that I had a daughter who could be sufficiently interesting to attract a gentleman like Sir Leo. ... I have a jolly good girl for a daughter...
Vigorous, enterprising Detroit likes to be thought THE ONE centre of aviation in the U. S. It also likes to attract aircraft factories to the city. Both ends were furthered, last week, when Detroit played host to famed aviators, U. S. and foreign balloonists, airplane designers and manufacturers, 1,000 engineers, gathered to see the start of the Air Olympics...
...politics, seemed annoyed when Mayor Harry Mackay of Philadelphia told newsmen that when he lunched with him in Paris the day before the Leviathan sailed, the general had made no plans for returning to the U. S. The speed, the name, the talk that a Republican was needed to attract the Veterans' vote, combined to make some people suspect that General Pershing had been called from retirement to help make the U. S. safe...
...echoes of many a famous "preface" concerning religion, eugenics, education, professional morality, economics-in short, society. But the echoes are measured and stressed in a grand symphony of discord for which the resolving chord is equality of income. The bizarre title of the composition is calculated to attract male attention: a man cannot confess his ignorance of politics, economics, and all the rest of a voter's business, but he does not object to elementary instruction offered his wife. And if the husband should overhear. . . . Shaw chuckles contentedly, and instructs...
Stock market trades were based on beliefs that some combinations would attract Briggs Body, Murray Body, Eaton Axle, Stewart-Warner, Electric Auto Lite...