Word: coaxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selznick received one of the most ecstatic business telegrams ever sent. It was sent by Kay (for Katherine) Brown, Eastern Story Editor of Selznick International Pictures. She said: "We have just airmailed detailed synopsis of Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, also copy of book. ... I beg, urge, coax and plead with you to read this at once. I know that after you read the book you will drop everything...
...native of Erie, Pa., Harry Burleigh left his job as janitor when he won a four-year scholarship to Manhattan's National Conservatory of Music. Head of the Conservatory was Anton Dvorak. After supper, Dvorak would coax another Negro song out of young Burleigh's teeming repertory. Shortly afterwards appeared Dvorak's New World symphony, the first to use Negro spirituals...
...afford to buy materials months in advance in the face of threatening inventory losses and production curtailment? How soon will the auto-steel logjam break, so that Detroit can again lead U. S. business to another upturn? And, more philosophically, do price reductions pay when they don't coax new business out of hiding? Meanwhile, the copper industry demonstrated that Henry Ford's low price-big volume doctrine is still worth something. Last week, copper companies, who recently got new orders by cutting prices from 11¼? to 10¼? a Ib. (TIME, May 15), found orders again...
...coax the Soviet Union into the Grand Alliance was a ticklish business. The last thing the Polish and Rumanian Governments want is a Red Army on their soil, even one fighting in their defense. They are more than willing, however, to accept Russian planes and munitions. Off early this week from London for Moscow was Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Ivan M. Maisky. He was carrying home to Dictator Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff the outlines of a plan of "limited aid" in case of war. Far from being insulted at being told...
...pounding a typewriter, Bell Telephone picked 24 of the cleverest telephone operators from 300 candidates, gave them about twelve months' intensive training as Voder operators. Like concert pianists, they have to keep in trim by practicing several hours a day. The most difficult speech component they must coax out of Voder, and the one that sounds least natural, is the letter l. When someone at last week's demonstration asked for the words "Bell Telephone," they came out something like "Behrw Tehwephone...