Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howdy do, Isaac, where is Jacob? Hello, Joseph! Say, old man, that was a rough deal they tried to put over on you down in Egypt, when that woman tried to tempt you and you looked her square in the face and pushed her away. Say, Joseph, I like you." Then Billy Sunday asked for Peter, James, John, Andrew, Philip. Finally he asked a favor of Jesus: Could he hang around the gate to welcome his family in? "You can sit right there, Bill, if you want to. It's all right." So he hung around the gate, waiting...
Seven o'clock came and Huey Long began to twit Senators about dinner engagements, then to tempt them with tall talk about food...
...special, if not punitive, taxes on "surplus money," refused audiences to banking emissaries, threatened to withdraw all Provincial balances from commercial banks, announced plans for 30 new branches of the Government-owned savings bank system, upped the system's interest rate from 2% to 2½%, to tempt deposits away from private institutions...
Since the U. S. import duty on foreign cars was cut to 10%, Germany's swanker cars bought with blocked marks have begun to tempt U. S. socialites who have been buying their big Diesel yachts in Germany for years. Thus in 1929 the highest-priced Mercedes chassis cost $15,500 in Manhattan, costs but $8,000 today...
...comely hostess, soft lights, and sweet music, and a cuisine superior to any in the Square will tempt after-the-game diners. A complete line of liquors served by a bartender well versed in the art will please the most fastidious imbibers...