Word: baits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer it is Sea Bright, Southampton, Newport, Rye-staying at the best hotels or draw-my-bath private homes. In the winter it is Palm Beach, Bermuda, Jamaica. In the spring Pinehurst, Asheville, Hot Springs-guests of hotel managements that occasionally offer more attractive bait for players than mere traveling expenses and $30-a-day suites. Some tournament promoters have been known to offer lump-sum traveling expenses that could take the player to Buenos Aires and back. Now & then a well-heeled promoter has even been known to get around the amateur code by making a friendly little wager...
...lure of one radio rainbow: $1,000 to anyone sitting in his theatre instead of at home Tuesday nights when Pot o' Gold's $1,000 telephone call comes. Odds against his losing: about 50,000-to-1. Last week the Capitol still had its original bait, had won back most of its Tuesday night crowd. In the wind was a national variation of his scheme: a $2,000 pot, offered to all cinemaudiences of major U. S. cinema circuits, and subscribed by a $1-a-week assessment on each U. S. chain cinema house...
This was proper bait for the Vagabond. He tore after it like the tail after a kite. "Because Harvard is a conglomeration of every type," he stated with finality. "You can't let her go with Indifference. You have to use every adjective in the vocabulary...
...pants and put some silver in, was one of Canada's cleverest financial men, Colonel James Layton Ralston. A corporation lawyer who spends his spare time loafing with dory fishermen on the Nova Scotia coast, fishing and eating lobsters, he has long refused to nibble Cabinet bait. But once in, he was expected because of his bulldog tenacity and narrow partisanship to become the Government's strongest...
...press in its dissection of the Communists all but ignored the plight of Fritz Kuhn's German-American Bundsters, who have long been nourished on Red bait. Fritz Kuhn took the line that Earl Browder used: what happened in Europe made no difference to Nazis...