Word: trapping
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This plot, they agree, is retaliation for the Nazi coup of November, 1930 when several top-flight British Secret Service men walked into a trap on the Dutch border...
...maid (Patsy Kelly) and his colored chauffeur (Eddie Anderson) back to the scene of the crime for a dose of spooks. Before Topper points a thin, hesitating finger at the murderer the film shows: Billie Burke in her familiar role as an addlepate; gravel-voiced Eddie Anderson falling through trap doors, rasping protest; Carole Landis' highly touted legs; Patsy Kelly cracking wise...
...broached into the expected path of the enemy fleet, reported by air reconnaissance to have divided into a northern squadron-two battleships covered by cruisers and destroyers -and a southern squadron-one battleship similarly covered. The Orion was to try to decoy the southern squadron into a night trap. Toward evening the main British force followed the flagship Warspite into the Ionian Sea between Sicily and Greece toward the hoped-for area of conflict. A few light Greek vessels put out to join them...
...Domei, assured the people that "his mission to Europe is as peaceful as peaceful can be." Asahi thought it necessary to warn the Foreign Minister that "great prudence and mature consideration are required." Rear Admiral Tanetsugu put Japan's fears in a nutshell: unless Germany and Italy can trap the British Fleet in the Mediterranean, the Admiral wrote, the British Navy will command the Atlantic and the U. S. Navy the Pacific. Then "the new strategy to blockade Japan at a distance may be brought into play...
...father (Leopold Damrosch) in Breslau, Germany, Walter Damrosch took his own opera company barnstorming in the U. S., toured with the old New York Symphony to towns which had never heard a concert. Shrewd, levelheaded, anything but temperamental, he could take it in his stride when a snow-heavy trap door rattled and banged through Debussy's placid Afternoon of a Faun (as it did one night in Utica, N. Y.), or when he found himself conducting on the strippers' runway in some cramped burlesque house. He was not above giving the Pathétique Symphony the fastest...