Word: teaser
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...George Alexander Morrison, Member of Parliament for the Scottish Universities, offered a teaser to test his colleagues' mental quickness, was appalled when the teaser was publicized, when his telephone began ringing as answers poured in from all over Europe. The teaser...
...Teaser. When the directors of General Electric Co. sat down in Manhattan last week for their regular monthly meeting, they had before them a teasing corporate conundrum. What could their company do with $60,900,000 cash and $50,976,000 in marketable securities on the last financial statement? It did not take a director to see that 1) in the present cheap money market G. E. could not earn enough on cash and Governments to offset what it has to pay out in fixed dividends on special stock and interest on bonds, and 2) that no new orders...
...silly girl, a typical college "teaser," sneaks away from her Southern co-ed institution for a party with a would-be sophisticated boyfriend. He gets drunk, runs out of liquor, insists on going to a lonely country bootlegger's he knows about. Almost there, he wrecks his car and the two find themselves stranded at dusk at the bootlegger's, among five hard men, one hard woman. The boy gets drunk again, the girl is terrified but cannot get away. This typical cinema situation does not turn out like a cinema. For one horror-filled night the girl escapes...
...same on a grander scale. In Washington he was seen with the wrong people, got off to a bad start. His ambition found little outlet on the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. Then he met Senator Miller's wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman Carson had left a girl behind in Wisconsin: more worldly-wise than he, Irma Schmultz (for such was her plain name) insisted he keep their engagement secret for awhile. When weeks went by without a letter from him, Irma grew anxious, went to Washington. Daniel reassured her, but soon the truth...
...feel at all cocky over your knowledge of English literature have a look at this catechism. The authors may spare the local teaser about who killed Kit Marlowe, but they have up their sleeve a few new ones that would make a Divisional paper blush...