Word: trapping
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...December Indian trappers complained at the Mounted Police Headquarters in Aklavik that somebody was interfering with their trap lines. For both white and red men, trapping is the only livelihood in winter. Robbing trap lines is a crime, though understandable, but these traps were not robbed. Somebody was smashing snares and deadfalls, scattering the bait so hungry animals could eat it in safety. Tracks of the trap-smasher were followed to Johnson's cabin. Indians raised the alarm, said...
...befits a rich, successful and not yet superannuated artist, by dictating letters to his pretty secretary, Virginia Rook, who is also his grandniece. Later Painter Hassam is seen showing some sketches to his wife, swimming at Southampton's Maidstone Club, whacking at a golf ball in a sand trap, painting the kind of old sun-dappled house he likes best to put on canvas. As a climax he inspects with urbane but irrepressible enthusiasm some of his own paintings hanging in the Metropolitan...
...reduction of "excessive" rates; 3) transferred from the President to Congress his power to flex rates; 4) created the office of "consumers' counsel" with the Tariff Commission. The measure was sent to the Senate. If passed there, President Hoover is expected to veto it as a political trap set to embarrass...
...effect China was left without a Government, for the more prominent members of General Chiang's cabinet resigned with him. Cantonese suspected a trap, feared that on the arrival of their leaders to take over the Nanking Government, these leaders might be slain by soldiers still loyal to General Chiang who would set himself up again as President. Meanwhile Nanking weltered in a series of patriotic riots by Chinese "students" who have not studied for months, preferring to hurl bricks and assault Chinese statesmen in protest against their "weak policy...
...Times Square, like the well-remembered Cock Robin and The Last Warning, is a backstage murder play. A drama is being rehearsed, during which a man is shot as he vanishes through a trap door. He emerges in the audience unhurt. Then another man, coming through the audience, is fired on. It turns out that he is not killed either. Finally someone really is shot, but by this time the whole business has become too silly for you to care much one way or another...