Word: lure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wife" is pleasantly quiet. It is essentially an idyllic love story concerning Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonds, but the triteness of plot is relieved by the varied minor characters and by its background, the Erie Canal in Pre-Civil War days. The conflict between railway and canal, the lure of western emigration, and the farmer's love of the land are all presented calmly but with force...
...been jiggling Bellanca since last April, using the old but now forbidden device of "matched orders''-buying & selling simultaneously to create an appearance of market activity. This is done to make the public think that something exciting is about to happen in the stock under manipulation, lure them in as buyers. Jiggled or not, Bellanca rose from a low this year of $1.75 per share to a high of $5.50. Last week, though no one except a few SEC and Curb officials were supposed to know about Mr. Meehan's present until the last minutes...
Great Northern Sea Route Administrator Schmidt will lure the little slant-eyed brothers out of their igloos, clap them into modern houses. The Schmidt settlements will have bathrooms with hot & cold running water, bakeries with bread popping in & out of ovens on conveyers, a radio network pouring out music and propaganda, libraries. "It is impossible," said the Professor, "to convince them of the advantages of settling down at fur-trading posts so long as there are no bathhouses...
...scandals and frustrations. Captain Gaskell has broken with China Doll to become engaged to Sybil (Rosalind Russell). China Doll, chagrined, has stolen his key to the ship's armory, given it to MacArdle. The owner of the line (C. Aubrey Smith) has delivered a short talk on the lure of the Orient. During the typhoon a lashed steamroller has rolled loose on deck, crushing coolies until, owing to the cowardice of his third officer (Lewis Stone), Captain Gaskell is forced to rechain it almost singlehanded. When the pirates board the Kin Lung they first attach a Malay boot...
...Bronx's New York Zoological Park appeared Rupert Merkl, 52, Bavarian-born, Ossining, N. Y. farmer, claiming he had invented a snake trap. Said Curator of Reptiles Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars: "Impossible. I have never seen an effective snake trap and I know of no poison that will lure...