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...orchestra made audiences fidget and giggle. The band was going through all the motions: the swart, longish-haired leader led away; the brasses, the saxophones, the clarinets made a great show of fingering and blowing, but the only sound from the stage was a rhythmic swish-swish from the trap-drummer, a froggy slap-slap from the bull-fiddler, a soft plunk-plunk from the pianist. This, explained Leader Raymond Scott, was silent music...
...zero hour of 7 o'clock drew closer the leaderless suicide squad took the initiative and laid a trap for their wayward choice for Swami. Five minutes before the scheduled burning, they waylaid him and made him prisoner...
...gone-"dead or in Alcatraz." The story is classical in its simplicity. Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart), an aging desperado, sticks up a resort hotel in California and makes his getaway into the snow-topped Sierras. Hunted by a small army of policemen, he shoots his way out of one trap after another, is cornered at last, keeps shooting...
...strafed retreating troops, bombed tents, trucks, hangars, grounded planes. One day they ranged all the way to Tripoli to hit at shipping and transport planes that might slip supplies across to Bengasi. At that port the British expected to catch Rodolfo Graziani's men in a final trap, and they did not want it strenghtened by last-minute reinforcement...
...certain things from what I believe to be the blunders of the past. Wee can learn not to be misled by the merely trivial or accidental or falsely emotional. We can learn to avoid errors of method--as indeed we have learned, in refusing again to set such a trap for ourselves as Wilson's submarine policy, which put the peace of the United States at the mercy of the strategic calculations of the German High Command. But whatever the past may teach us, it is still the problem of the present which must be solved...