Word: lures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this job Lowden has given most of his time and energy since the 1920 convention upset the plan and dashed the hopes of his too industrious managers. An attempt to lure him away from his farm and persuade him to run on the ticket as Vice President, with Coolidge, fell flat in 1924 Lowden insisting. "I can be of more service to the country through the activities in which I am now engaged than I could be as Vice President...
Hawaii is more than a paradise in tropic seas. The boom of surf on coral reef, the fiery image of volcanic spray on cloudless night sky, flower-garlanded brown bodies lure U. S. tourists. But those mountainous islands are one with the U. S. in creating wealth from soil and industry. In the capital city, Honolulu, is a Stock and Bond Exchange where the securities of the Philippine Archipeligo's sugar plantations, public utilities, railways and pineapple canners are bought and sold, and where, significantly, are listed the foreign stocks and bonds of Sumatran and Philippine companies financed...
...Review of Reviews craves subscribers. Like nearly all non-fiction magazines, it lures them with rich promises of premium,?i. e., some- thing presumably more attractive than the magazine itself. Through the mails citizens are receiving the latest lure...
...filled Chicago's Hotel Sherman exhibition rooms all last week. Practically every foreign country where U. S. tourists go set up displays of arts & crafts and lithographs of its scenic beauties.* U. S. railroads, the national parks, states with recreation sites, travel agencies countered the foreign lure. Steamship lines displayed the magnificences of their services...
Came the army to Chippenham, where hot tea and biscuits (crackers) were served to them at Labor headquarters. They came in the dead of night, their miners' lanterns swinging by their side. No pretty girls could lure them from their sleep...