Word: endearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nostalgia alone may endear Venus to the aging generation of readers that chuckled over Helen. But literary tastes change even if the authors of taste do not. Venus is not so clever as Helen; even if it were, the quarter century between them has probably depressed the market...
Another interesting feature which aiming to endear "College" to its new readers is an all-inclusive set of rules of college behavior, for the benefit of the more loutish readers...
Belcher's blatant bohemianism and his contrastingly quiet humor were enough to endear him to the public, but it was the strict realism of his easel paintings which impressed Britain's stuffy Royal Academicians. In 1945 they made him a member...
...Holiday), it is meant to be a source of charm. Professor Edman's gift for talking about philosophy has made him one of the prides of Columbia's faculty and a crowd-drawing lecturer. The same gift, at work in his good-humored essays, will endear him to readers who do not wish to put up their hands and ask searching questions...
First he proposed a state rent-control law to replace OPA ceilings if Congress lets them expire this year. Such action might not endear Tom Dewey, titular head of the G.O.P., to those Republican Congressmen who take the view that price controls are an unnecessary evil born of the New Deal. But it sounded like smart long-term politics for wooing the man who might be in the street except for rent controls. (It also sounded realistic to most economists, who agree, however reluctantly, that the free supply-&-demand economy which was an inevitable war casualty could not return full...