Word: trap
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...accuracy is here dealt round on the general subject of Broadway. The Follies, with Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, Ann Pennington, Gallagher and Shean, and even Mr. Ziegfeld adequately included, is the subject. It seems that the low-comedy actress had never had a lover. It was the trap drummer that finally succumbed. They were very happy until the luxurious prima donna leered her way into their lives. Then a strange ending, so swift and so sincere as to be almost out of place...
...claim a reward. This of course, just to make things, already mixed up, a little worse and ten times funnier. There are relatives, one of whom is the finance of Ned Pembroke the police, Vera, and finally Mrs. Pembroke. After the first act, the house proves a perfect trap, thanks to the slogan of Officer Mooney. "You can come...
...There were 600 people in the schoolhouse while 400 outside could not find room. My forces were on guard and at no time were they troubled by the Communists. These must have been concealed near the place where the shooting began, because the young men walked into a real trap. Most of the latter had not even canes to protect themselves with...
...Nowhere in all the history of crimes and cruelties is there anything for cold-blooded genius in the invention of torment?nowhere is there anything to compare with that little machine of Hell on earth, the steel trap. The steel trap has no place in anything even remotely describing itself as civilization and to abolish it we shall rely upon the modern woman...
Some 90 years ago, a man-child was born into the family of a New York state dairy farmer and christened Jason. As that boy grew, according to popular tales, he acquired an education by hard work, invented a mouse-trap and performed sundry undistinguished feats. "It was in the year 1857 that this same person came into the business world with his first name shortened to Jay, and in possession of the Rutland & Washington R. R. He soon parted with this property at a profit and, in 1860, went down to Manhattan...