Word: lure
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weston, Under Secretary of State," a nonexistent character, while applying to the U. S. Passport Bureau in Manhattan for 50 blank passports. Fräulein Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa, was allegedly his accomplice, in a capacity, for which nature had not fitted her, of lure. On the strength of its coup, the Department of Justice asked for a grand jury investigation. Leading witness was to be a Manhattan doctor, Ignatz T. Griebl...
...lure" men away from other symphony orchestras; that was not necessary, nor would such procedure have been in keeping with our policy [TIME, April 25]. The facts are: after it was announced we were augmenting the NBC Orchestra to full symphonic strength, we received more than 700 applications from instrumentalists. . . . From this number we selected the very finest artists who were free of other contractual obligations. In no sense did we "raid" other symphony orchestras...
Dean Hanford's hope that there will be a development of a strong sentiment against "public disturbances" on the part of the undergraduates is an idealistic one. The lure of adventure and the love of milling in crowds on warm spring evenings is inherent in every student here, and adventurous milling is rather likely to lead to that classic Deanism, "public disturbance...
...heartier elements in human nature. Last week, as director of the Institute of American Sporting Art, Inc., he staged a big show of sporting art in Chicago for just those elements. Director Zoeller, who had spent five years preparing for this show, was sure he could never lure sportsmen into an art gallery. Accordingly he displayed his 298 pieces-ranging from a bulging bronze called Shot-Putter (Why Not?) to a sentimental painting of ducks at dusk-in the Midland Club Hotel, posted them around a cellophane pond on which floated a fleet of wooden decoys. At the opening...
...other explanations have been suggested: 1) the topheavy ratio of bad motion pictures to good ones, perhaps due to the demands of the double-feature market; 2) the obviously bad business move of building up cinema personalities and then letting the radio make them too familiar; 3) the lure of bingo and other catchpenny diversions of the nation's entertainment dollar...