Word: luring
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...bunks, rising shelf on shelf, each own its feeble light, and its prostrate Conrad with open book. Thus is the tedium of the long "road to Mandalay" bridged for the men who know the starkness of Kipling's and Stevenson's enchanted seas. And Pegasus unchained is a new lure to the "sober men and true attentive to our duty". The romance of the picture cannot be denied...
...radio sets; that the average family income on the farm is $1,504, of which $634 is furnished in food, fuel and housing by the farm; that an odor of the cotton plant has been isolated and plans are being laid to manufacture it synthetically as a bait to lure boll weevils to their doom...
GOLD OF OPHIR-Sydney and Marjory Greenbie - Doubleday, Page ($4). The story of the lure of the Orient in early America, how it drew Yankee clippers around the Horn, how it propelled the movement westward across the continent...
...expelled from Turkey, including even Prince Abdul Medjid, whom the Kemalists suffered to act as Caliph from 1922 to 1924. At present over 250 members of this once omnipotent family are said to be living an all but hand-to-mouth existence. A few, of course, have capitalized the lure of royalty at Paris, but for the most part they are said to make their living in such pursuits as "hawking rugs along the Riviera . . . peddling fruits and vegetables . . . driving taxicabs...
Boston censorship has, of course, wreaked its will on this piece, so that it is altogether unrelated to the seductive photographs on the lobby. But it is greatly to be doubted if even the lure of wickedness would have saved so anaemic a production. Perhaps the municipal censor, or whatever he is called, is doing the public a service by demonstrating how hollow a revue which depends on its reputation for naughtiness is likely to become whenever it is made to be well-behaved