Word: coaxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walsh, the Wonder Girl of White Pass Trail, who ran a beanery and was sworn to be as morally clean as the snow that fell on her tent. Sweet Marie was a dance hall girl and prettier than most. When she lifted her plaintive voice in song, she could coax more nuggets out of sourdoughs in one night than Deadeye Olga, Yukon Lucy or Moosehide Kate could in a month...
...that to being a coxswain, however, according to no less an authority than Mr. Whiteside who stated quite emphatically that the tiny tikes can make or break a crew. They have to know how to get the most out of the men. A good coxswain must know when to coax and plead with his oarsmen, when to encourage and when to threaten. By his skillfull handling of the tiller ropes he can save precious yards that may mean the difference between victory and defeat in an important race. He must be a strategist. He must know when to coast...
...England, won the favor of Britain's merry monarch Edward VII. A shrewd business woman who multiplied her earnings, she abruptly left the stage in 1920, eleven years after building Manhattan's Maxine Elliott Theatre, went to live at Cannes. To Manhattan newshawks who tried to coax her to reminisce about her career, she roundly replied: "There's no good talking to me. I never really liked the theatre. I just happened to be in it. Night after night I have played in successes. They became drearier and drearier. They gave me my theatre. They provided...
...utilization of sunshine, however, is not the same thing as using sunshine to produce high temperatures for scientific research. Hottest heats obtained by any means have been less than 5,000° C. The California Institute of Technology, working with Dr. Hale's new sun furnace, expects to coax from it 6,000°-roughly the surface temperature of the sun itself...
...rate prices. Mr. Firestone also makes third and fourth grade tires but chiefly to enable his dealers to compete. So did Mr. Tew, Mr. Davis and Mr. Litchfield until last fortnight. Then they agreed to drop the cheap lines they market under their own names, tried to coax Mr. Firestone into the scheme. Mr. Firestone would have none of it. It would be an admission of defeat in his long, long joust with the mail-order tire...