Word: lures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever the reason for these mental illnesses, the greatest danger lies in the lure of fake remedies; for the sick man is an all-too-easy victim of the first best quack who happens to cross--and bar--his way; he believes in miracles as the drowning man believes in his straw. Harvard has its quack doctors in plenty, its tutoring schools perched along Massachusetts Avenue. Sick people flock in, sick people flock out. Liberal education at its best...
...score last week by nailing the new British cruiser Belfast at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, sending her back crippled to Rosyth naval base. Another U-boat sank a small ship which Berlin claimed was a Q-boat-an armed Britisher disguised as a Dutchman to lure submarines. The British identified this ship as the innocent 5,133-ton Dutch freighter Sliedrecht, whose crew was turned loose to drift in a lifeboat for seven and a half days...
...seem a natural radio retort to cinema's screeno, bingo, bank night, etc. But cinemanagers hate to have their potential customers stay home in the evening. Last month astute, 50-year-old Manager Bob Livingston of the Lincoln, Neb. Capitol tried a remedy for the lure of one radio rainbow: $1,000 to anyone sitting in his theatre instead of at home Tuesday nights when Pot o' Gold's $1,000 telephone call comes. Odds against his losing: about 50,000-to-1. Last week the Capitol still had its original bait, had won back most...
Transcontinental Broadcasting System, Inc., Elliott Roosevelt's venture, is scheduled to go into business Jan. 1 with some 100 stations. All last week at The Blackstone in Chicago, the lure of Elliott's name, plus the promise of some 60 hours a week of steady if cut-rate business, kept customers coming. B-S-H had already contracted for 15 premium night-time hours a week; Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. scheduled its noisy commentator, Elliott Roosevelt himself, on Transcontinental. Dorothy Thompson was courted; Boake Carter and Father Coughlin were possibilities. There were no such headliners as Jack Benny...
...Possessed (chiefly based on Dostoevsky's novel, adapted by George Shdan-off; produced by Chekhov Theatre Productions, Inc.). Ever since Dostoevsky first published his great novels, playwrights have gone about dramatizing them. The lure of powerful scenes, extraordinary characters, exciting dialogue is understandable but dangerous...