Word: lures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia police arrested Charles Kemble Butler Wister, 29, son of Novelist Owen Wister, for drunken driving, few hours later arrested the Wister chauffeur, David J. McNaull, for attempting to lure three high-school girls into his automobile...
...Newton, Mass., District Judge Harry C. Fabien upheld the police by enjoining five citizens from letting their dogs trespass on the property of Realtor Edmond M. Pulin. His 3-lb. toy Chihuahua bitch, explained Realtor Pulin, was the lure which drew the five trespassers-an English bull, a German shepherd, two collies, a Great Dane...
There is some alarm lest the talks will develop into rivalries, with the instructors trying to outbid the other to get the customers. The possibilities of such competition are immense. Discounts and premiums would be part of the sales drives, and the departments could lure the trade with guarantees of minimum marks and maximum hours. If there is any tendency--and there may well be one--for the speeches to resemble the official catalogue, some of the Confidential Guide tricks will come in handy. Each instructor might be followed by seniors just through the particular mill, who would spend...
...other And Out trades that have horned in for their share of the profits, the number of remarkable people that engage in it, and the number of north country inhabitants that have cut the wood off their slopes--except the stumps--and who pray for snow with which ton lure the city slickers makes it doubtful. In its position in the national economy skiing may well be held a phenomenon comparable to mah jong, mumbledy-peg, or peewee golf...
...time its occupant has been Bostonian Sanford Bates. Calvin Coolidge gave him the job of running Massachusetts' prisons nearly 18 years ago. So great grew his fame as a penologist that Herbert Hoover brought him to Washington, Governor Franklin Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia tried in vain to lure him into the services of the State and City of New York. Having kicked politics out of the antiquated prison system and built 16 model Federal prisons, last week Penologist Bates resigned, turned over his job to his Assistant James V. Bennett, to try his hand at crime prevention...