Word: bait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large numbers produce a thinking being with a sense of humor. Mr. Babbitt cannot laugh at himself. The Mercury is no better. And whereas one is content to exist on the profits from tires and real estate, the other lives in that brand of human fish which bites any bait with a pseudo-intellectual flavor...
...stockholders' meeting of the U. S. Steel Corporation in Hoboken, N. J., one E. R. Armstrong, shareholder, arose to bait Judge Elbert H. Gary, veteran Chairman of the Board. Judge Gary's naturally florid countenance blenched somewhat as Mr. Armstrong cried...
Vote. Meanwhile the Premier and Deputies waxed apoplectic in defending or denouncing M. Malvy. M. Briand's purpose was to bait Malvy's detractors (on the Right) into goading Malvy's adherents (on the Left) into a blind fury, in which they would vote solidly for the Government when the Premier should make a "vote of confidence" out of the Right's demand that Malvy be ousted. The astute M. Briand succeeded. He rolled up a vote...
...Victory. Early in the week the long Chamber debate on the Locarno Treaties drew to a close. M. Briand was kept sharply under fire by those die-hard anti-German militarists, the adherents of former Premier Poincaré. They could see nothing in Locarno but a delusive bait to seduce France from seeking the armaments and the great military alliances upon which they consider that true security from German aggression must rest. Cried M. Maginot, a trusted lieutenant of Poincare: "We cannot vote for the Locarno Treaty, for it means the disarmament of France in front of Germany, who does...
...farmers own radio sets; that the average family income on the farm is $1,504, of which $634 is furnished in food, fuel and housing by the farm; that an odor of the cotton plant has been isolated and plans are being laid to manufacture it synthetically as a bait to lure boll weevils to their doom...