Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortnight ago Railroad Coordinator Eastman tried to tempt steelmakers with a particularly luscious looking apple: an offer by 47 railroads to buy 844,000 tons of rails and 245,000 tons of rail fastenings (TIME, Oct. 16). There was a serpent beside the apple, however: the price of rails must be reduced from $40 to $35 a ton. Having pondered, the six U. S. makers of rails (Carnegie Steel, Illinois Steel, Tennessee Coal, subsidiaries of U. S. Steel; Bethlehem Steel; Inland Steel: Colorado Fuel & Iron) last week decided that the apple was tempting enough to warrant swallowing half the serpent...
British Plan. Making a success of the Conference meant, last week, that the Great Powers must get their new disarmament plans off their Chief Delegates' chests and that these plans must be such as to tempt Germany back into the parley...
Across the bay from Ballycastle lies Aran Island. Too barren and sunless to tempt invaders, it went untouched, and almost unknowing, while the rest of Ireland gave up its lands and its memories. But the fishermen on Aran still remembered Cuchulain and the Red Branch, and the language of the Erse; their infrequent English, with its archaic vocabulary sounds like a foreign tongue. For them was reserved a later invasion and a stranger. A young man who had found the music schools of Germany and the cafes of Paris not at all to his liking was rowed out from...
...merry wag who used to stand in line in order to pass a jest with the president. Mr. Hoover's term has not been prolific of this form of humor, but in the legendary days of prosperity, the impassive figure of Mr. Coolidge seemed to tempt the amateur will Rogers continually. The newspaper did not dignify these events with print, but they nevertheless had their evanescent fame. One inspired youth waited for half an hour in the procession in order to confront the outstretched hand of the president with lifted eyebrows and "Beg pardon...
...Devil walking the earth like a natural man. The Old Harry in the latest offering of Playwright Benn W. Levy (Springtime for Henry, Mrs. Moonlight} is none other than matinee idolized Basil Rathbone. Christened facetiously Rev. Nicholas Lucy, Mr. Rathbone has been sent among mortals by Playwright Levy to tempt them, and in so tempting to demonstrate that the practice of virtue is inescapable. "The Devil," observes Mr. Lucy, "is God's advertising agent...