Word: lures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more in gags than in ghosts. And from Sleepy Hollow you well might think that the old tale had been a trilogy. The show is incredibly poky and protracted; it just won't keep movin' along. Nor has it very much more of musicomedy's factitious lure than of the old Hudson River Valley's drowsy charm; only here & there is a lyric sprightly, or the dancing gay. As Ichabod, angular Gil Lamb is likable and pleasant, but by no means a tide-turner. Best thing about Sleepy Hollow is the singing, which does...
...Holles almost accepted a coaching bid from Cornell in 1937, but when he finally fell prey to the lure of Bill Bingham's offerings he recommended the name of Stork Sanford to the powers that be at Ithaca. He has had plenty of days since then on which to rue that advice, for Sanford and his Cornell eights have given the Crimson more trouble than any other opponent over the last decade...
...Finn Ronne is no amateur. His father was with Roald Amundsen when he discovered the South Pole; and Ronne, brought up in the mountains of Norway, first went to the Antarctic with Rear Admiral Byrd in 1933. When he goes back in a year or two ("There is a lure . . ."), Mrs. Ronne will not be with him. Says she: "Why, I didn't wear a dress the whole time I was there. The next time, I stay home...
...knew how many kits the 45-odd manufacturers in the industry had already sold. But Toni hair wave, the biggest, which Gillette Safety Razor Co. bought out, had alone sold 20,000,000, planned to spend $7,000,000 on ads to boost sales this year. Gillette hopes to lure women out of beauty shops just as successfully as it once lured men out of barber shops...
Yardlings with connections at Vassar will be permitted to lure the girls of their choice to Jubilee festivities on Saturday...