Word: lure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last month, the Messrs. Simon and Schuster presented their crossword* goose with a new nesting lure, the monthly Crossword Puzzle Magazine. They sat back awaiting more of the golden deposits that had established them in the publishing business. Crossword quips, crossword portraits, crossword biographies and several huge crossword puzzles filled the magazine's pages...
...after holding forth in Holden for 27 years, the School was moved to Boston but the specimens which has given Holden a sort of morbid lure, remained abandoned in their place, closed up in the now otherwise deserted chapel...
...jigs. Many light-legged ladies agilely provide that atmosphere of deviltry which always overwhelms the very old and the very young at the sight of 20 or more female limbs rapidly manipulated to music. Occasionally William Howard, comedian of the monocle school, advances to the footlights in order to lure back those holders of seats who have begun to make determined, surreptitious exits on all fours up the centre aisle. He imitates Harry Lauder, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor; he sings, with extraordinary results, a philosophic anthem entitled Let It Rain; he surmises that a talkative lady "must have been vaccinated...
...that many people have come to think a college is nothing but a training school for safety-pin kings and toothpick magnates. Millions of broadsides are sent through the mails every year by dispensers of capsule libraries and vest-pocket universities filling people's heads with deadly statistics. One lure to success by the read-five-minutes-a-day method has this convincing argument...
...Author. Harvey O'Higgins is a man of 48, tall and slender, with keen, sensitive features and a quiet grey eye. He was born and educated in Canada, of British parentage. A legal career had originally been planned for him : but the lure of the pen led him into newspaper and magazine work which, in turn, took him to New York. The Youth's Companion was his first literary medium. His chief previous publications are Prom the Life, Some Distinguished Americans, The American Mind in Action, The Secret Springs...