Word: lure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lure...
...Kerryville, Tex., one Hugh Day climbed a tree, imitated turkey calls to lure the birds within range of his gun. Fooled, another huntsman approached and shot Mr. Day dead...
...Most Immoral Lady (First National). The duplicity of wives who lure rich men into compromising situations so that their husbands can collect money from them has long been familiar to theatre audiences. It is less common in the cinema. The hints that before long Leatrice Joy will fall in love with one of her dupes even keep her from being as boring as her stolid acting usually makes her. Changing A Most Immoral Lady into a picture has slowed its tempo and made even more insubstantial its faint flourishes of wit. As though recognizing this the producers have dressed...
Inevitably Sāo Paulo's bonanza prosperity caused other Brazilian states to go in heavily for coffee planting, spurred by the lure of high prices created by Sāo Paulo's artificial restraint of trade. As these new plantations have come into production it has proved steadily harder to keep the price of coffee up. Pressure by the potent planters on the Brazilian Government forced the adoption of most dubious expedients by the state. These have included the buying and storing in State warehouses of Brazil's coffee surplus for a number of years, until...
...banner in Waukegan in answer to Mr. Voliva's rule of injustice and tyranny and to provide a church home for those who are disgusted with Voliva's tactics." Then hiring a theatre she held lusty revival meetings, playing hymns on her silver trumpet. As an additional lure she stated these meetings were exact duplicates of those Sister McPherson was holding in the Angelus Temple at Los Angeles. At the end of each session Sister Locy called upon the faithful to come forward, rejoiced as Zion-deserters increased...