Word: decoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from miles around. There was much dancing, and merriment which reached its height when one of the local officials fell into the river. As we had calculated, the guests left the Harvard ball about midnight. But our ruse failed, for in a few hours they returned with our decoy brew and remained with us until seven o'clock in the morning. The promise about fights was not strictly kept...
...informal, rambling musicomedy written by Donald Ogden Stewart, Going Hollywood is an effort to use radio as a decoy for cinema audiences, which succeeds much better than previous attempts built around less genuinely valuable performers than Bing Crosby...
Luckily Alexander still had his collection of antique coins; he sold them. His wife Xenia sold her pearls. The late notorious Alfred Lowenstein offered him $2,000 a week to act as social decoy...
...LADY DANGEROUS-Sydney Horler -Harper ($2). The British Secret Service uses a female decoy to frustrate an arch-plotter; the Empire is saved anew...
...things as good in his day. His book touches on some of them, but by no means all. One day he and a man named Duff teamed to get a ship news shot of the elder Morgan, notoriously hostile to cameramen. Duff hid behind a ventilator. Jack Price, as decoy, waited until Banker Morgan, pacing the deck, came alongside the ventilator. Then he leaped into Morgan's path, focussing his camera. Irate Banker Morgan brandished his cane, while Confederate Duff, unseen, sniped a perfect shot, later shared with Price...