Word: lured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacific Coast baseball men are fed up with playing Santa Claus to the major leagues. They do not like losing their Buck Newsomes, Joe Di Maggios and Ted Williamses. They think postwar air travel may well lure some big-league club to pick up a Los Angeles franchise (the St. Louis Browns nibbled at it two years ago). Above all, they await the day when they can support a third big league of their...
...Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers, affiliated with neither C.I.O. nor A.F. of L., had been so calm that millions did not know the union existed. But the Dayton local, like many others, had been quietly tapping its foot for months over an "emergency"' company practice. To lure operators to war-production centers, the company had offered an $18.25-a-week expense bonus to any transferring from smaller Ohio towns...
...entrance to Heaven, and the strenuous life a round of bird walks, committee meetings and the best clubs. Sex, Apley gathers from a reading of Freud, "very largely governs the lives of the people ... in other parts of the country." Even in Boston, to Apley's dismay, its lure involves his son and daughter, as once long ago Apley himself had been passionately involved with a South Boston colleen...
...adapted from her own novel by Ilka Chase, produced by John C. Wilson) is terribly modern, frightfully modish and stupefyingly dull. Playwright Chase has hand-tailored for Actress Chase the role of Devon Elliott, a manufacturer of haunting perfumes. Devon's career is notable, her lure considerable, but her life somehow becomes a champagne bucket of ashes. Her husband loves her, yet leaves her; her refugee swain loves her, yet has a girl in every flat. Seeking to blend Park Avenue with poignancy, brittle talk with amorous bruises, In Bed We Cry is much less a slice of life...
Some skeptical educators doubted that the ballyhoo would lure many youngsters back to school. But there were signs last week that the back-to-school movement would soon be helped by factory layoffs and the growing realization among youngsters that the war would not last forever. Some field reports...