Word: lure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coffee tin, some 1,200 ft. of No. 36 thread line, 15 ft. of copper leader. Shoulder-straps and a socketed belt are provided to let the fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish. A fresh squid is sewed onto the hook and sometimes a wooden lure is trolled ahead of it to rouse the broadbill's interest. To take the line out of the wake of the boat a kite is often rigged to it and flown off the quarter. The fish are sighted when their fins and tails clip the water's surface...
...second time the play has been done in sound but the treatment is fresh, the characters new. Elmer (Joe E. Brown) is a temperamental yap. The Chicago Cubs buy his contract, find he has lost interest in baseball, make a deal with his girl (Patricia Ellis) to lure him into camp. There he bats out their best pitcher, walks off raging because they are incompetent. Between fits of injured dignity Elmer finds time to bat the team into the "World Serious," then riots himself into jail, refuses to come out and play. When he is finally released his confreres suspect...
...credits must be given the members of the Department, the second slightly qualified. First that they do not seek enrollment by holding out the lure of commercial training. This would not only be misrepresentation but a reversal of Harvard tradition. This would not only be misrepresentation but a reversal of Harvard tradition. The second is that they are aware of, and understand, the criticisms leveled at the department . . . much as they are aware of and understand, the arguments for a high protective tariff...
...Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers...
...present condition of affairs is irremediable, it is only just that the misunderstandings which have existed up till now be corrected. House masters must no longer even unconsciously lure Freshmen in under the delusion that they may have the choice of a better and perhaps cheaper room the next year. Students should not be drawn into what is practically a three year contract for rooms they cannot afford to inhabit more than one season. In all fairness the House masters must make the actual situation clear to all applicants for rooms...