Word: lures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring lonely people together," established a Lonely Hearts' page. Men and women seeking companions do not have to pay to have their notices inserted in the Graphic. They can even have their photographs published free of charge, if they will but come to the Graphic office. This new lure was established last week. It is all a labor of love: "Drab, colorless lives have been made bright; discouraged souls have been given renewed faith in mankind and have found new interests in life." Specimen Lonely Hearts of the last two weeks...
...BOOK OF WORDS-Rudyard Kipling-Doubleday, Doran ($3.00). A collection of speeches-1906 to 1927. Untouched by new-fangled ions and isms, the old-time Kipling remembers the lure of the Orient, the challenge of drums, the thrill of courage, the virtue in authority...
Hard to resist, for Fascists, Monarchists and Bolshevists alike, is the lure of the U. S. tourist business. For many a year, Soviet Russia has looked enviously at U. S. millionaires squandering marks in Berlin, francs in Paris, lire in Rome. This year, through the tourist bureau Sovtorg-flot, the United Soviet Socialist Republics held out greedy Bolshevist hands. Concessions to arrange Russian tours went to three trans-Atlantic steamship lines (Cunard, French, Holland-American). About 700 tourists have proceeded, or are proceeding, Moscow-ward...
Problems. Serious-minded Commander Byrd, famed as an aviator, likes to be thought a scientist as well. Indignantly he battles the idea that his flight to Europe last year was any mere trans-Atlantic hop. Science was the lure which drew him to the attempt. And Science, pure Science, calls him to the South Pole and Antarctica. These are the scientific mysteries Explorer Byrd hopes to bring to light...
This evening at 8 o'clock Mr. Frank Branch Riley will give an illustrated lecture on the National Parks in the Old Fogg Art Museum. The title of the speech is "The Lure of the Great Northwest...