Word: luring
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...unusual stress and trial. You have each your special cause of anxiety. So, too, have I. The whole nation is beset with the difficulties incident to a world-wide depression. . . . Many have lost the savings of a lifetime, many are unemployed. . . . This is passing trial. . . . Never was the lure of the rosy path to every panacea or of easy ways to imagined security more tempting. For the energies of private initiative we are offered an alluring substitute in the specious claim that hired representatives of 100,000,000 people can do better than the people themselves in thinking and planning...
...author, the Irish writer, give his reflection on the adventure: "It was a mad trip to have undertaken, a solemn request for death: but we did not recognize our folly till we were faced with the unknown, and then the lure of the skyline seized us almost against our wills...
Believing that "theatregoers are entitled to plays, and good plays, at prices within their reach," Producer George Sharp has revived Young Sinners, a hit of last season, at a top price of $1. Balcony seats cost 50?. It is an attempt to lure moviegoers back to the theatre. The production is not cheap, the cast is headed by Dorothy Appleby and others from last season's success. It is a bargain at Si. Producer Sharp plans to present more and, it is to be hoped, better $1 plays...
...advent of crew races on the Charles arouses sufficient interest on the Vagabond's part to make him wish to follow the 150-pound crew to Kent, Perhaps, however, Bermuda will lure him. The unsettled period of making up one's mind as to where to pass the Spring Recess makes all decisions difficult. And so, with his mind busied with that problem, he will listen where his feet lead him on this last day before he leaves for parts yet unchosen. Bermuda may win out; he witnessed the Lowell-Dunster boat race yesterday...
...that nebulous thing called Spring fever the movies are excellent. When neither these escapes or antidotes are needed the managers of the cinema house have to put on a picture of some higher type--a filming of a successful stage play or some extraordinary original Hollywood enterprise--to lure the majority of the college students. (Of course, every normal man has his favorite actress whom he would see in any picture, no matter how outrageous the vehicle.) But when work causes consternation and the weather and other forces cause one to be "fed up" there need be no especial attraction...