Word: lured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Otherwise Early to Bed is a brisk Broadway show, produced with pre-Pearl Harbor opulence and making up in snap and lure for what it lacks in style and wit. The girls are beautiful, the costumes bright, the dancing fast & furious. Though "Fats" Waller's score provides no new Honeysuckle Rose and, in general, is bet ter danced than sung, it is pleasantly satisfying. The Ladies Who Sing With a Band is a gay spoof of female mike-blasters, This Is So Nice is a likeable ditty, There's a Man in My Life, a warming love song...
...American Airways may have a big shake-up of its personnel in charge of snakecharming. Pan Am had hired one Akbar Shuja, a citizen of Northern India, for duty at the tea planter's bungalow which serves as barracks for Pan Am pilots there. His job: to lure hooded cobras out of the bungalow's thatched roof. Last week Pan Am began to suspect that Akbar is a slick character; specifically, that he puts the snakes back when the pilots are away, pipes them forth each evening when the pilots return. If Akbar is fired, Pan Am operating...
...circulation of hot dogs would fall off were it not for mustard, but mustard is not their chief lure...
TIME's Venom (Cont'd) Sirs: "Do other readers agree that an undertone of venom is TIME's chief lure, that sadism governs their reading habits?" (TIME, April...
...Lampoon, humorous magazine whose production is actually handled by a small group of wits, will not feel the man-power shortage so acutely, and a competition held early in the summer term is expected to lure enough new funsters to maintain publication throughout the summer. The chief need is for cartoonists, and special inducement may be offered to jokers talented in this field...