Word: lure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extraction quite often possesses those qualities which are said to adorn the true gentlewoman. It is some time before Ian Hunter, after waking up to find himself the husband of Bette Davis, realizes that he has a jewel. Old friends seek to draw him away, and there is the lure of the gilded siren, whose marriage to another has not, it appears, diminished her affection for him. Excellent direction and acting give the whole a pleasing effect. As the shop-girl, Bette Davis is so attractive that the indecision of her spouse at times becomes a reproach to his intelligence...
...dint of catching fish bare-handed to feed himself and his dogs, he reached the North Magnetic Pole on Boothia Peninsula last summer, photographed it, started South. A mosquito bit his left arm which swelled, became useless. Game was so scarce he had to lie on his back, lure seals, which he munched raw, by waving his feet in the air. Three dogs froze and Adventurer Irwin lashed himself in the traces to pull the sledge. One day he fell through the ice, twisted his knee. Starving, he killed a dog, ate it. became deathly sick. Two days later...
...Vancouver, Washington's Evergreen Kennel Club dog track, while the rest of the field of greyhounds as usual chased the mechanical rabbit vainly around the track. Mignonette, a novice bitch, tore off in the opposite direction and met the rabbit headon. Mignonette tore the fluff lure off the moving rack and the rest of the field pounced on it. The race was canceled...
...sophomore and junior teams in the Hioks Prizo Debate. The time was when according to the HArvard CRIMSON, "The tricks and traps of the logicians were as many as keenly appreciated as the generalship of an astute quarterback." Today even the bait of $50 in prizes cannot lure the wary undergraduate, fearful for his reputation as a man about town and socialite, out of his liar of sophistication...
...between the two. On the one side, there is the intellectual stimulus of a tutor, the joy in work for its own sake, and the risk of being fired from the benefits of college because of neglect of courses. On the side of the course system, there is the lure of honors for the bright and hard-working, perhaps a scholarship; for the slow, the assurance that he will remain in the academic folds until graduation, the assurance of a degree, and the risk of losing all the much-tooted benefits of tutors and tutorial...