Word: luring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shearer and Paulette Goddard) in The Women, Rosalind Russell is the one usually best remembered by the millions who saw the picture. She became firmly established as the idol of a generation of less-than-beautiful movie-going girls who had to use smart clothes and bright chatter to lure men away from more luscious-looking females...
...always looking for new ways to educate customers to new needs-which Hudson's can supply. A staff of 48 interior decorators helps shoppers pick furnishings and (for a modest fee) makes home calls to advise on such things as wallpaper and floor plans for furniture. To lure shoppers off the ground floor, the Webbers spotted four restaurants through the store, where 8,900 customers are served daily...
...Summer vacation begins two months afterwards. Vacation means travel to all Harvard and Radcliffe students. Summer visions of London, Paris, Rome and other Continental playgrounds are conjured up. But during Spring vacation Bermuda and the Caribbean are temptingly near. And for the more local traveler there is still the lure of the unknown in such cities as New York, Washington, and Chicago...
Miss Crosby? After she made Come On-a My House, it was inevitable that Hollywood would talk itself into discovering Clooney. Her biggest appeal, after all, is to the very teen-age audience that the moviemakers are trying to lure away from television sets. As for practical Rosemary, she has always had her eyes firmly fixed on the movies. "It gets me out of the hit-record class," she says. "Even a B-player is hot stuff in Monessen, Pa. On records you're only as good as your last release...
...company on its feet, Krim got a $3,750,000 loan from Walter E. Heller & Co., a Chicago factoring house, and 4,000 shares of U.A. stock, which he used to lure a crack management team from other studios. He also began buying up all the movies available (e.g., Eagle Lion's library of 200 films, including The Red Shoes), and guaranteed exhibitors 36 pictures a year...