Word: trapping
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...mystery drama at the Plymouth this week is singularly lacking in all the conventional trappings; no gorillas carrying swooning, half-naked females shamble across the stage; not once does a mysterious hand stretch out from the secret panel and grasp its unsuspecting victim; the lights are never suddenly doused and there are no trap doors, hidden staircases, or ghostly signals...
...brokerage house of Weicker & Co. announced it would take a new partner on Jan. 2: Francis Warren Pershing, 24, only son of General John, J. Pershing. His qualifications: a degree from Sheffield Scientific School, 1931 (voted "most likely to succeed"); a year spent selling crushed stone for New York Trap Rock Corp.; several months "connected" with Weicker & Co.; a third share in the $819,000 estate of his late famed grandsire, the venerable Senator Francis Warren of Wyoming...
...more will hunters be allowed to trap their game with circling bush-fires, to use poison, dazzling lights, nets, pits, snares, set guns. Gunners and photographers must not frighten animals with snorting automobiles, roaring airplanes...
...force for which he is famous, Hitler literally burst out with this assertion. I had not asked him about his attitude toward France. . . . Hitler's gestures and pointblank statements remind me of Theodore Roosevelt." While French editors voiced confidence that Premier Daladier would not walk into the "Hitler trap" of separate negotiation with Germany-a step sure to estrange from France her "Little Entente" allies (Czechoslovakia. Jugoslavia, Rumania) and Poland-shaggy, excitable French Foreign Minister
Shrewd, fiery Defendant Dimitroff tried to trap the dull Dutchman into admitting that he acted as a Nazi tool...