Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...tournament will go through to the finals this week. The finals will be held over until after the holidays and they will take place in the New Gymnasium on January 7 and should attract a large audience...
...Beaufort. Last week they held their great promised event-a steeplechase modeled on the English Grand National at Aintrée. The King of Spain had donated a cup for it and the Grasslands group added $5,000 prize money. Partly the race was a promotion scheme to attract other sportsmen to take out $10,000 memberships in the Grasslands Foundation. Partly it was a genuine attempt to give U. S. horses a test that would show what they might do at Aintrée. Entered were three good English horses-St. Roy, Kilbairn, and Man-amber. Best...
...many respects Dr. Clark's ideas on charity and his repudiation of large-scale American philanthropy, which he compares to the dole, will attract most of the attention given to the book. But an historical study, in the first essay, of the idea that prosperity is based on slavery and Puritanism is equally worthy of consideration...
Other lectures of interest that will attract the Vagabond...
...fact remains that there is no reason why the Dramatic Club should not produce a revival that would be a contribution to the stage, and at the same time attract a large number of persons interested in significant plays. If they desire to accumulate a large box office receipt, they obviously can not reach such a goal by presenting plays that the talking pictures and stock companies do better every day in the week. On the other hand, if the club chooses to become a school of acting, their former prestige and affluence must necessarily be relegated to the past...