Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers weighed their fears with their dreams. To tempt farm hands back from war plants they were offering $7 to $12 a day, plus room and bountiful board. They sent out calls for thousands of Italian and German prisoners to work the fields. They counted on the help of clerks and storekeepers in the towns, who will lay off at noon and head for the dusty fields. They needed women and teen-age kids to man the roaring tractors, to drive the heavy grain trucks to the elevators and even to operate some of the big combines...
...Negroes to visit white schools and vice versa is to tempt them. Novelist Carl Van Vechten (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Peter Whiffle) has done just that with a scheme involving Yale and Fisk Universities...
...singers, dancers, band leaders-all rolled up into one supposedly stupendous entity. unlike the real thing, however, the picture lacks that thrill of intimate contact which-insured the success of its real-life predecessor and substitutes a series of Acts, some good, some bad, with just the feeblest at tempt at a unifying theme...
...Tell him . . . if he is half the man your husband is he will not tempt you further...
Unlike his colleague, "Frisky" Merriman, Professor Murdock has refused for several years to act in the annual House play. When he once played a drunken porter who drove the other characters off the stage with a blunderbuss, the audience went wild, and he modestly decided not to tempt fate with another appearance...