Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the insurgent editors from Cambridge were amazed in mid-morning when they offered a bogus paper to some vendors of the "Dartmouth Pictorial" to attract customers. "Yeah, I heard about this," said one. The editors started to withdraw as their masterpiece did not even inspire a snicker...
Traubel's personal wardrobe consists of mannishly tailored suits and simple dresses which make no attempt to hide her broad shoulders. Says Adrian: "We attract as little attention as possible to her bust. Her great bulk is disguised by making lines run up and down...
Hollywood has always had title trouble.*However famous the book, play or short story, moviemakers feel that about 70% of all titles must be "simplified," cleaned up or sexed up to attract 56 million customers. Title news on forthcoming films: ¶James Feniipore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Columbia announced, will reach the screen as Last of the Redmen. ¶After months of impatient waiting for the movie version of James Thurber's introspective little short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, depressed Thurber fans learned that the big Goldwyn musical starring Danny Kaye will...
When U.S. airlines were young and gay, they were so anxious to attract passengers that they were politer than so many Lord Chesterfields. Even when passengers made reservations, then failed to show up at flight time, it was quite all right. These "no-shows" cost the lines an estimated $8 million a year, and were the chief reason many planes took off with half their seats empty...
...four-mile course at Franklin Park. Always an inconspicuous sport amidst the noise of the football season, and until yesterday the World Series, the Crimson harrier aggregation, nevertheless, within a short two-week practice period, managed to take second in the four-way meet last Friday, and promises to attract some attention in the sports arena this fall...