Word: luring
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...these men be known as U. S. musicians would be known? "laborers in the field of music"?and automatically there will be restriction upon their entrance. Restaurants, jazz orchestras, show producers will have to fall back upon the 138,000 union musicians. They will not be able to lure the beggared fiddlers of Europe to the U. S. with wages that appear fabulous to the foreigner though equal to only half the current scale...
...America. Men direct athletics who are concerned about scholarship. They make of athletics a part of education. They are teachers more than coaches. Yet this explanation does not directly point to the solution of American problems. Here too the voluntary coach was the first preceptor in sport. The lure of big profits and large fame--characteristically American lines--proved stronger than ever they could abroad. American problems will be solved rather by a revision of emphasis than a change of system. But comparisons point...
...impression that it is not a queen of Egypt writing of her experiences in Rome, but a first person description of a scenario. There is an abundance of tinsel, clap-trap, and blowing of tin horns. Cleopatra becomes a burlesque queen without a vestige of her Nilotic lure and intellectuality...
...brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles, and shame our wickedness. . . . I am for fish. Fishing is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure of the human soul into refreshment. But it is too long between bites; we must have more fish in proportion to the water...
Lady Do. Here is a musical comedy exploiting that situation, apparently entrancing to many, in which a man dresses like a woman to lure his rival away from the heroine, in order that he-she may gain her for her-himself. Karyl Normand impersonates easily...