Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catskills again, Kaye met small, dark, self-possessed Sylvia Fine and played in a camp show for which she had written the music and lyrics. The show-Straw Hat Revue-went to Broadway in the fall, and lasted ten weeks, which was long enough for Danny to attract some attention. He married Sylvia a month later, and thereby acquired first rights to her talents as script writer, songwriter, idea-man and all-round coach. As usual, she is in full charge of the new radio venture...
...week he got for plugging Swan soap was no soporific: he still wanted to be a comedian. His whole point in plugging soap on the Burns & Allen show-with an agreement that he be given plenty of publicity and good lines to speak-was to attract attention to himself. But the stars of the Burns & Allen show are Burns & Allen. Advertisements that printed ambitious Bill Goodwin's name in type as big as the stars' rocked George Burns back on his heels. Presently Goodwin's publicity and his lines began to shrink...
Injected into a man's veins, purified dextran has plasma's ability to combat shock by maintaining the volume of blood in the veins. The dextran molecules are too large to leak out readily through capillary walls, and at the same time they attract water, hold it in the blood...
...basis of that rather dubious claim to fame, some 20 impressionable newspapers buy her syndicated wares which are presented in a rather fluffy column to attract what we once called the gum-chewing trade...
...public-relations director, Gertrude Hendricks, who once taught the construction of form-fit corsets, she cajoled some 120 candidates through a fort night of spring training oh: 1) conversation techniques, 2) etiquette, 3) posture, 4) dress, 5) make-up and hairdo for the outdoor girl, 6) how to attract the right kind of man as against the wolf. Before hitting the road, the players pledged themselves not to smoke in public or ap pear in bars, arranged to stop in private homes instead of hotels...