Word: coaxings
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...early days, such a hit as Glow Worm might sell two or three million copies of sheet music for them. After it was launched in vaudeville or a Broadway show, its principal salesman was a fast-talking song plugger whose job it was to visit bandleaders and coax or coerce a performance out of them. If he could get a song on Kate Smith's radio program he had done a good week's work. His pitch might run from "Please play this song-if only to ease the pain of my ulcers" to "What prizefight or show...
...actress of 18, he thought he knew the answer. When his wife objected to what was still, in Biographer Johnson's words, a "technically innocent" relationship, Dickens drove her to a separation while waging an acrimonious publicity duel with her family. But it took Dickens five years to coax Ellen to place "comfort before chastity." Their affair was blotted with self-reproach. Ellen did not really love him, and after Dickens' death she married a clergyman, and said to a friend that she "loathed the very thought of the intimacy" with Dickens...
...Kentucky, the Republican senatorial nominee is John Sherman Cooper, who was elected to a two-year Senate term in 1946. Cooper was defeated in 1948, but ran far ahead of the national ticket. He is certain to coax many independent Democrats over to the Republican column and his presence helps Ike in this normally Democratic state...
...coax this gold out of hiding, Premier Antoine Pinay launched a savings-bond drive. He gave the French a choice between buying his gold-backed bonds or paying increased taxes (TIME, April 21). Last week the bond drive was over, and Pinay pronounced it a "healthy operation." French hoarders turned in 34 tons of gold, valued at $42 million. In all, $557 million came from what the government calls "fresh money," i.e., cash and gold not previously invested in bonds...
...coronation" . . . The pomp and circumstance connected with such an award is not designed to impress cynical and worldly-wise adults, but, rather, is centered on the boy himself. The award of Eagle rank is the highest honor that scouting can bestow . . . Parents may prod, and leaders may coax, but the boy himself must do the work . . . After a formidable array of obstacles has been surmounted, no award ceremony is too great to convince the boy that for one night at least, he is on top of the world. (PvT.) ALAN F. HUGHES Fort...