Word: decoying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Ford, storekeeper in the village of Drumcollogher, County Limerick, welcomed to the musty loft of his barn last week a crowd of eager Irish peasants who climbed up the single rickety ladder, sat down in rapt expectance of Drumcollogher's first cinema show, a drama called The Decoy...
...Little Irish Girl (Dolores Costello-Johnny Harron). This tale of the San Francisco underworld affords Dolores Costello the opportunity of playing the decoy for a grimy cafe of doubtful purpose. While she is concentrating on the business of luring in as many pocketsful of money as possible, there swims into her calculating ken the inevitable handsome youth - with whom she falls in love and to whose farm her comrades in crime depart in a body. Whereupon his grandmother proves that sharp wits are not all urban products. Miss Costello contributes another of her decorative and deft characterizations...
...Diagnosis of Disease, Physical Diagnosis. Case Histories in Medicine, Social Service and the Art of Healing. Differential Diagnosis, What Men Live By, Laymen's Handbook of Medicine, Rewards and Training of a Physician, Social Work. His later books reveal a shrewd estimate of the popular intelligence. While they never decoy the reader into bypaths, still they are in startling contrast to the keen methodology of his earlier, more scholarly tomes...
...Every one of our 20,000,000 Sunday papers is Satan's ambassador and a decoy to ruin America...
Toman and die Waldfec, by Vitĕzslav Novak, embodies the old German folk story of Toman who, betrayed by his beloved, cannot resist the decoy of the sidelong smiling fairy whose kiss is death. He rides to his bride in a ballad for strings with a background of contra bass. Learning of her treachery, his laughter whirls in the brasses; exhaustion succeeds; the love cry faints into the sliding enchantments of Venus Yertocordia, to culminate at length in a triumphant orgy of brutal discords. "The finale," said one critic, "is like awakening from a nightmare...