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...Knows Better Now," Mrs. Tompkins (Miss Irwin) has a decidedly funny quarrel with her husband and leaves for Europe. The second act brings her back literally loaded with smuggled goods, and shows her struggle to deceive the customs officials. In the third act, the officials finally trap her, but she is saved from jail by her husband who forgives her as the curtain falls...

Author: By J. G. G., | Title: New Plays in Boston | 1/9/1912 | See Source »

...Greene has offered to trap enough clams to feed the host and there will be no difficulty in securing enough spigots to moisten the throstles of the Great Unslacked. Here is what the Cimmittee want you to clip out and paste in wour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRIVILEGED LEISURE CLASS | 6/1/1911 | See Source »

...York via the Fall River boat on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday will be spent at Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, and on Saturday the party will visit Beemerville, returning to New York late Saturday in order to take the midnight train to Boston. Those who wish to see the Paterson trap quarries may return to Boston Sunday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Geological Trips During Recess | 4/15/1911 | See Source »

...work of determining the life histories of these insects is being carried on as speedily as conditions will permit. Plans are also being made to put out trap trees and electric light traps in the spring. Further it is hoped that parasites of the leopard moth can be procured from Europe. And it has already been tried and so far has resulted in failure, because the larvae are very hard to find during the winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESERVATION OF YARD ELMS | 2/10/1910 | See Source »

...supported by it. The agitator that dies for the hopeless cause, or the soldier that falls by the shot-torn flag, never thinks of loyalty. It is his mission in life, and he does not question it. If football is merely played for the loyalty it inspires--spring the trap and let it perish." The article supporting Professor Royce's view lacks the worst faults of the opposing statement, but is also inclined to excess, both in language and argument...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Neilson Reviews Illustrated | 1/22/1909 | See Source »

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