Word: trapping
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...Nice, France, Charles Rancurel, sent to Devil's Island as an incorrigible burglar in 1915, who escaped in 1924. was recaptured in 1926 and who escaped again in 1928, walked into an almost certain trap at his mother's doorstep. Arrested, he cried: "Let me see mother just once before she dies, and I'll be satisfied! I am through escaping...
...Guest House" in which visiting Chinese donors and prospective donors will be sumptuously entertained. In style it is an Imperial Palace of Old China. Its spacious gardens spread over nine mow (1½ acres). Pompously the small, shrill-voiced, wasp-waisted President inaugurated this gilded trap for contributions. Then, briskly he set out on his long promised military campaign to crush bandits & rebels (TIME, June...
...loud clothing. When the police send a lady to get evidence on his gambling-house, Nick gives her a drink, then kicks her from behind. The picture grows a little less lively toward the end. Knowing that Nick trusts all blondes, the police use one to trap him. Nick is last seen on the platform of a train, with an overcoat over his handcuffed wrists, offering two to one that he will be out in five years...
...experience for him when Leandro Arpinati. Under Secretary of the Interior, and Boss of Bologna, requested that before the Bologna concert last month he perform the Fascist tune and the ''Marcia Reale" (royal march of the house of Savoy). Though Conductor Toscanini suspected no trap, he stoutly refused. Boss Arpinati suggested that the Bologna town band be permitted to play the pieces. "Impossible !" cried the maestro. It was an evening in memory of his dead friend. "That would be a masquerade, not a concert...
...week. At the end of 18 holes, Martin-Smith sent a telegram to the captain of the Cambridge golf team saying he was two up. At the 22nd he was four up, but De Forest squared the match at the 34th. On the 35th his ball went into a trap, he took six to Martin-Smith's five. Both played their second shots short on the last hole, halved it in fives. Golfer De Forest was consoled for losing by $13,750 in bonuses from his proud father...