Word: mousetrap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most extraordinary and most typically British characters that Alice met on the other side of the looking glass was the White Knight. To be prepared for "everything" he carried not only tin armor and a helmet, but also a sandwich box, a mousetrap, fire-irons, carrots, a beehive; and his horse was equipped with anti-sharkbite anklets. Great Britain was last week compared to the White Knight by more than one Briton, and the parallel was just...
...conditioned pie pan; a combination vanity case, walking stick, beach cape and umbrella. This is the organization which turned up in former years with a cow-tail restrainer (to prevent milkers from being switched); a funnel to facilitate the insertion of keys in keyholes; a mirror-maze mousetrap, hundreds of similar marvels...
...many a business executive, expert that he may be in selling goods or building a mousetrap, has no gift for wooing the public: he needs an associate who can expound his "social responsibilities" to workers, to the buying public, to local communities, to the Federal Government. The easiest way to get this done is to hire one of the small group of well-fed, top-flight "public relations counsels...
...Deacons assumed the lead in the first quarter when Earl Foster went over center on a mousetrap play and kept right on going until he hit the end zone. Jack McClure tacked on another point with a placement...
...scientific meeting in his life. His retiring nature was far from a result of shyness, but sprang rather from a sense of the dignity of the scientific life and a natural distrust of confabs, which he regarded as a waste of time. Emerson's observation about a better mousetrap was particularly applicable to Professor Kohler, for although he forced himself on nobody, his reputation for sagacity and good judgment caused chemists the world over to beat a path to the door of his office for advice on technical matters, academic appointments, or personal affairs...