Word: lure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sumner but was given a clean bill of health by the courts. Essentially a humorist, and of the earth earthly, he has not yet settled down to his role. Left wing critics have dragged tempting herrings across his track, calling him a heavyweight Red hope and trying to lure him into the ranks of the proletarian propagandists Most of the 20 stories in We Are the Living are seriously intended; some are seriously successful; but the cream of the crop are bawdy-wild humorous. Mark Twain would have roared over them-in private. Some of them...
...buck deer with horns in velvet which, presumably chased by dogs and injured on the flank, had become marooned on a rocky ledge (TIME, Sept. 4 & 11). No end of elaborate wiles and artifices, including stuffed deer, an Indian chief, a plank bridge, were brought into play to lure the animal from its prison, all to no avail. Park employes feared that, if frightened, the buck might plunge over the brink and be destroyed, as its mate had been. Last week the buck's predicament, by now a national news story, brought Superintendent Gardiner Bump of New York...
...grown accustomed to being gaped at, was eating the sweet corn and drinking the water lowered daily from the cliff, sleeping on a bale of hay. Hemlock branches and moss were strewn across the five-foot-wide plank bridge, a trail of salt sprinkled across it as a lure. Park officials were deluged with rescue suggestions. One man wanted to put an opiate in the deer's water. Another suggested a jacklight to lure the buck across the bridge at night. A farmer offered to bring a flock of sheep, place them reassuringly on the chasm's opposite...
Said Film Actress Helen Hayes to Manhattan reporters: "I hope to be able to make Hollywood pay its toll by using the 'movie name' Hollywood has given me to lure into the theatre many people who will attend only out of curiosity to see a 'movie star' in the flesh. If the George Arlisses, the Ann Hardings and the Lionel and John Barrymores should do the same thing, there would be no need of worrying about the rejuvenation of the theatre. In a year it would be completely rejuvenated...
...duty of the Federal Government to again intervene, firmly and boldly, and put more checks upon game shooting 1) by the total stoppage of baiting game to entice it up to the guns, and 2) by the total stoppage of the use of live decoys, unfairly to lure geese and ducks down to the very muzzles of hidden batteries of guns-'so close that it is impossible to miss...