Word: snare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having thus balanced their spiritual budget, the publishers turned to the problem of financing a free press, bemoaned the drop in national advertising, made plans to snare more...
...tunes his moods to Tchaikovsky or Wagner, keeps a slinky-eyed hostess (Anna May Wong), is dangerous to know because he eliminates occasional associates with sad-eyed sadism. With his town's financial and civic agencies pretty well in thrall he makes the social error of trying to snare a fine-feathered society girl (Gail Patrick), accidentally spills a little salt on his own tail, ends up where the righteous Hays office likes to see all enemies of society...
...Barit's action was certainly not the familiar automotive stunt of changing a few gadgets as an excuse for lowering a car's price. The Hudson 112 is a bona fide new car. Nonetheless motormen generally regarded it as primarily an attempt to snare a market which has balked at high prices. How successful it will be remains to be seen, but last week it had President Roosevelt's blessing...
...music swelled and filled the small room with a throbbing harmony. Slick Jones stood there, mouth agape, until he couldn't stand it any longer. He slipped out the door, and in a moment returned with his snare drum and cymbals. He got to work immediately, grinning from ear to ear. He is famed for wearing out a drum-skin once a week, and wearing out a pair of sticks every performance...
...probably the most scenic flight for its length on any U. S. airline, passing over Grand Canyon, Boulder Dam, Painted Desert, Indian reservations. Death Valley, high Sierras and San Francisco's famed bridges. And by entering San Francisco, TWA breaks United Air's monopoly there. Expecting to snare part of United's traffic, TWA began with two round-trips daily between San Francisco and New York...