Word: lures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Musial rejoined the club after 14 months in the Navy, Eddie Dyer was the new manager of the Cardinals. In Mexico, Jorge Pasquel was spending big money to lure U.S. big-leaguers into his Mexican Baseball League, and he was making the biggest eyes of all at the Cardinals. With the clink of gold, he signed up three of themf and he had the Adam's apple of a fourth bobbing like a pogo stick. The fourth man was Stan Musial...
...have one thing in common: "They are written by men who never possibly could have found a bee tree, at least by pursuing the methods they describe." Sample fallacies: a handkerchief soaked in anise will induce bees to point the way to their hive (actually they will shun the lure); a "beeline" home is straight (it is really erratic because "no two bees have exactly the same idea as to the best way home...
Among the period pieces that Menke's ten players have gagged up for the urban taste: The Drunkard, The Hat fields and the McCoys, Brother Against Brother, East Lynne, The Lure of the City. Recent audiences have been somewhat taken aback because 16-year-old Jack Fletcher, who performs as Hamlet, tries to play the role without gags. "Sometimes," he says, "I have to cut some of the soliloquies short to save my neck...
Diversion. In Harrah, Okla., R. A. Beal complained that chicken thieves used a handsome bitch to lure his watchdog off duty...
...first, the republic's Communist boss, lean, saturnine ex-Partisan Gildo Gasperoni, publicly decried the suggestion that San Marino become another Monte Carlo to lure money from free-spending capitalists. "This means the end of a tradition," he said with hands raised before his eyes. But in the end, Gasperoni and his Communists pushed the plan through...