Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harpo Marx's profession in Horse Feathers is somewhat more appropriate than his brother's. Harpo is a dogcatcher. He has a large lamp post to attract large dogs, a small lamp post for lapdogs, nets of various sizes. Running wildly about the town, he presently arrives at a speakeasy where Groucho Marx is trying to find a pair of professional football players to improve the Huxley team. Chico Marx is associated with the speak-easy as bootlegger and iceman. In the speakeasy. Harpo plays the slot machine with buttons, tries to enlarge his winnings by dropping coins...
...have tried to attract men and put them to the test. There is already a ruling class of excellent minds; for example: Grandi, Balbo, Bottai and Arpinati...
...waiting for the new world's biggest theatre to open, the old world's biggest theatre, the Roxy cinema palace in Manhattan, last week closed for three weeks. Lavish stage shows had failed to attract the weekly $75,000 necessary for profit. When it reopens, less lavishly, its 5,920 seats will be outnumbered by International Music Hall's 6,000-odd. It may forfeit the name of Roxy to another of the Rockefeller Center theatres...
...Sullivan '33 and G. L. Harrington 2L will probably be the debaters for the Democratic side, with R. H. Ambergh '33 and A. E. Phillips '34 as their opponents. This will be the only joint meeting of the two clubs and is being done chiefly to attract greater interest...
...dumped if the price rises noticeably. When the manager has the stock he wants, publicity is shot out, bullish rumors about the company appear, the stock is "tipped," for it is now advantageous to whisper the existence of the pool. The stock is churned over & over, bought & sold to attract attention. When outside buying begins, the pool manager drives up the price by concentrated buying. Outside enthusiasm grows, amateur traders hear a big rise is in prospect. Most pools do not play for large advances but for small profits on large blocks of stock. When the profit in sight seems...