Word: decoying
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...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...
...Many people might have doubted that such a Texan ever existed. Pat Neff not only existed but became Texas' Governor (1921-25). Well-known now is the story of how. hunting with a party which included the late William Jennings Bryan, he sat down to breakfast, found a wooden decoy duck on his plate. It was explained that each was to eat what he had shot the day before. Said Governor Neff: "The report that I never fired a gun almost cost me my governorship. Now my expert marksmanship is about to rob me of my breakfast...