Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly, the main problem for the auction houses is not a lack of public interest but the shortage of salable material. To lure valuables into the marketplace, they run ads in local papers urging people to rummage through their attics. Sotheby's also runs so-called Heirloom Discovery Days, on which for a small fee expert appraisers evaluate real and imagined treasures. A woman dropped in at its Los Angeles branch with a shoe box of attica that she had planned to give to the Salvation Army; the six Faberge silver-and-enamel pieces she unwrapped sold...
What is the secret of Greene's 2-D lure? Says Crosswinds President Bob Hennkens: "The only difference between Bob and Warren Beatty is 30 or 40 pounds. And Bob's chest is hairier." Greene's column is syndicated in 126 cities, and the 10,000 posters printed so far will be available in all. Says Hennkens: "We think there is a big future in posters featuring newsmen and women...
...Just like a Barron's College Outline, only you read it vertically. No one can say just how far the Americanization of Chinese education will go. Maybe they'll institute MCAT's to screen out incompetent barefoot doctors. One thing will never be the same though--they can never lure Mr. Test over to Peking to proctor the exams. Not for all the tea in China...
...recounts his private life as Lord Home of the Hirsel, the gray stone 70-room Home "hoose" on the English-Scottish border, surrounded by 3,000 acres of grouse moors and prime fishing spots along a stream called Leet Water. Angular Angler Home, who has tried "every known lure from the maggot to the dryest of flies," also dotes on lore. His technique for harvesting worms, a favorite bait: "Take a tablespoon of mustard, mix in warm water and sprinkle it on an area of lawn about a yard square. In two or three minutes, the worms will wriggle...
...Stenhouse "It was just a cheap trick. He was just trying to lure me into it. My father said it was just not good business." The Stenhouses turned down Charlie O. the next day. They have not heard from him since...