Word: trapping
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Somebody, opined political wiseacres, had fallen into a trap. If Mr. Ickes' files revealed any scandal, the Administration would be in hot water indeed. If they revealed none, Huey Long's scandal quest was made ridiculous at the outset...
...parents displease him he retires to a fully furnished packing-box stockade in the corner of a room, named "Snitzy Arms." ("So you're not living with us any more!") When Mamma loses Philbert in a department store she finds him in the rattrap department, inside a trap. When she loses him at a cinema theatre, the usher finds Philbert stuck to the chewing gum under the seat. Last month Philbert achieved one distinction never granted Henry. He appeared on Collier's cover, in full color, for New Year...
Apparently a careless biddy, in the one o'clock exodus, had left one of the trap doors of the incinerator open. A few minutes later a passer-by flipped a cigaret into the opening, whence it dropped to the basement on a pile of refuse. It took the services of the whole House janitorial staff to extinguish the blaze, which threatened to asphyxiate the residents of the upper floors...
...City Censor McNary is a successor of City Censor John Michael Casey, longtime trap drummer in Boston burlesque houses. When a railroad accident cost him his arm, Mr. Casey abandoned his career as a tympanist, became a zealous overseer of Boston's morals...
...From Chicago hurried one of the littlest and ablest crook snatchers in the service-Melvin Purvis. Just past 30, Bureau Chief Purvis, University of South Carolina Law School graduate, helped with the Federal investigation of the Insull collapse, rounded up Verne Sankey and the Touhy gang, set the Chicago trap that resulted in the killing of Desperado John Dillinger last July.* In the Stoll case he was given the Indianapolis area...