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...Todd, curious observer, wondered what effect freshmen trepidations had on freshmen stomachs; found: "When the freshman is in this unsettled emotional state we have a look at his internal mechanism. And just before he steps up to the fluoroscope, we heighten the effect by springing a booby trap on him - a loose board that makes a loud bang. In that emotional condition we find that his stomach has crawled up the length of several vertebrae. A year later, as a sophomore, we find his stomach back in place, where it ought to be. When you hear a woman describe...
More popular on the program, however, was a series of playlets, Scenes From The Lives Of The Romanovs, during which Ivan the Terrible murdered his son, and Catherine the Great had one of her ladies-in-waiting "flogged through the trap."* The high point of the performance was a scene showing the astute Tsar Nicholas I cajoling the revolutionary poet Releyef into betraying his associates in conspiracy. Wrote the dramatic critic of Isvestia: "One came away hating the Romanovs like so many viperous snakes...
...invention attributed to Catherine. Court ladies whom she desired to have flogged were made to stand upon a small trap door, clad in the billowy skirts of the period. When the trap was sprung, the victim's clothing prevented her from falling completely through, but exposed her to the ministrations of two men with cat-o-nine-tails below. Thus the Empress Catherine could witness the agony of those whom she wished to punish without offending her gaze with the vulgar aspects of chastisement...
...marked bills was handed to State Representative Dale. He accepted it gladly. Half of it was for his friend, State Representative Moore. Forthwith, Mr. Dale was arrested, was expelled from the legislature along with Mr. Moore for accepting a bribe. Speaker Bobbit and ranger officers had hatched the trap. Messrs. Dale and Moore, expectant of reward, had previously promised to kill a bill taxing optometrists...
Near Strongs, Mich., one Dr. John F. Deadman, veterinarian, talked softly and whistled to a full-grown timber wolf caught in a trap, calmed it, released it, in three days had it so tame he could stroke it, feed it, lift its lips back, baring the fangs...