Word: luring
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...years have gently laid the veil of life aside, I shall sit before a flickering fire of dying embers, and I shall dream, and out of the shadowy past shall trail sweet memories, fragments of joys and sorrows and ambitions. Strong, white hands, angel-hands, from muted strings shall lure bushed melodies, and once again I shall stand on the steps of Widener and gaze across the beloved Yard where the wind sighs. In the branches and nimble squirrels sport themselves among the holy Ivy whose ancient tendrils had twined themselves about my heart long since...
...shall order a few rubberneck lamps, a six-by-three Harvard pennant, a Harvard shield, several more or less ornate rugs, a framed copy of Kipling's 'If," a desk pad, and other absolutely requisite articles of decoration obtainable at the "Coop," all surrounded with the enticing lure of a tenpercent rebate, and my difficulties will be solved. Such are the advantages of living in this modern...
...deft use of antithesis; but, since nothing could be more inaccurate, it is not of much value as a comment on the present problems of higher education. Mr. Williams' picture of the student of the nineties entering college athirst for knowledge but enticed away from it by the lure of athletics and managerships does not command credence by its cleverness. One suspects that a good many of Mr. Williams' fellow Freshmen were out quite openly in search of the good time which it appears circumstances forced down his own unwilling throat. Those were, one understands, the good old days...
...Novarro in the lead. In the days of its manufacture they thought that President Coolidge would hand the cinema actor his diploma. There was unrest among the politicians, and the doubtful honor fell to Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. The hero starts acting honestly but finally succumbs to the lure of his own uniform and overplays...
...With my late husband, I traveled extensively, both in Europe and the East, under the auspices or with the assistance of agents of Thos. Cook & Sons. Believe me, they were more often young men, harrassed by the unreasonable demands of travelers far from home, than "panders seeking to lure the unwary still further...