Word: lures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been residing in a "luxurious" flat in Cleveland, equipped with a motor car and servant, and taking the air only at night. Detective Ora Slater, working under Prosecutor C. B. McClintock of Stark County, played upon the consciences of Pat McDermott's brothers until they agreed to lure him to Twin Rocks. Pa., by publishing news that his aged mother was dying. Mr. McDermott went to Twin Rocks and was given a week by his brothers to make a case for himself. Then the relatives sent for Detective Slater and ushered the fugitive into his presence...
...Master of Christ's. It was to this college, the Alma Mater of Milton and Darwin, that Mr. Hutchinson himself went, when three years ago he first came to Cambridge. Here he has studied history with a viger and an earnestness that sometimes dismays his friends who try to lure him away to coffee in the middle of the morning. One of his first recorded utterances at the Union was this, "Cambridge does offer learning, there's little doubt about it." And there is even less doubt that Mr. Huchinson has gone out for all the learning that the University...
...Famed sack-consuming philosopher and companion of Prince Hal, he was later ousted from England, migrated to Germany. His descendants changed the family name to Folstadt, then to Volstadt. Most of the Volstadts were hearty beer drinkers, but not so the youngest son who felt the lure of the prairies of the New World. On arrival in the U. S. he changed his name to the simpler Volstead, little knowing that one of his progeny (Andrew by name) would some day put Volstead on the lips of teeming millions. (U. S. folk lore...
Twenty-two years ago, two souls felt the lure of the Gobi Desert. The girl went as missionary; the man as explorer of the mysteries of Mongolia. The girl heard of the man and came unto his camp in the garb of a male. Her sex was discovered; love kindled. A Belgian missionary married them; two years they wandered honeymooning, unseen by white man. They returned to France and the fickle adventurer abandoned his desert mate and their little daughter, Pauline...
Others who have acted similarly are: Tertius van Dyke who left Park Avenue Presbyterian Church for a Connecticut village charge; Charles Clingman whom St. Thomas' could not lure from smoky Birmingham, Ala.; Dr. Harris E. Kirk who has remained in peaceful Baltimore despite the insistences of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church...