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...British annal's there was the case of a man the hangman could not hang. He was John Lee, a Devon murderer. On Feb. 23, 1885, he was thrice led, bound and black-hooded, to the gallows. In 30 minutes of trying, the hangman thrice released the trap and thrice it failed to open (rain had caused the wood to swell). Lee's death sentence was commuted to life in prison...
...with a new erector set: "This is where we're going to execute them. . . . Over here is where the chair will be. We used to hang them. The noose came down here and the ropes were tied to the bars on this window here. Then we cut this trap in the floor here, and we dropped them below and they carried the bodies away. That made it neater. But now we've got the most modern improvements. Now we're going to have a portable electric chair. . . . We're improving all the time...
...that the bureau has planted its "curiosity trap" in the local dailies, all it can do is wait. Wait and see is people want to know how smart they are--or if they'd rather be happy...
...than any film would dare to be. No sooner do Hollywood publicity departments concoct an advance campaign built about the usual theme, sex, than the self-chosen censors catch the scent, and like a pack of bewildered blood-hounds, bay along the trail straight into the press agent's trap. Some taste must be applied to film advertising if the scope of film censorship is not to grow. The motion picture industry must play a responsible role and clean up this wing of its house if it expects film censorship to grow...
When writing this phrase, I guessed that someone might fall into the innocent trap; I never thought TIME would...