Word: bait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insure warm U.S. houses next winter, Henderson & Co. also advise immediate conversion >of oil furnaces and stoves to coal burners. As added bait, the OPA last week refused to allow a 25?-a-ton increase in the price of coal...
Heroes of the boom were an unassuming shark called Galeorhinus zyopterus and a San Francisco fish broker named T. J. ("Tano") Guaragnella. Fishermen had always considered Galeorhinus a piscivorous, tackle-snarling, bait-swallowing pest whose carcass brought only $10 a ton for fertilizer, though Chinese sometimes bought his fins for soup. But shrewd Fish Buyer Guaragnella had a hunch. Seeing a huge Galeorhinus liver, he had it tested, found it was 100 times as rich in vitamin A as cod liver...
Hess nibbled, flew to Madrid to check up, swallowed great lumps of bait prepared for him there; at length, to B4's complete astonishment, came to Britain in person. After his capture, but behind Churchill's back (so far as Hess knew), he was visited by Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick who had -supposedly-written him many of the letters. Kirkpatrick then went to Dublin, with a letter from Hess, where he met with members of the German Embassy...
...with his house, to the City of Philadelphia. He stipulated that his paintings should never leave his house for permanent exhibition "unless some extraordinary situation shall arise making it extremely judicious." Before he died, he had barked: "I don't intend my pictures shall ever be used as bait for the construction of any blankety blank marble palace...
Hope tries hard to pep things up by wearing a negligee, insulting old women, hiding in a bait box full of anchovies, etc., but it's no use: the hoary farcicle smothers his brand of fast, wisecracking humor. For his truth-telling pains, he wins the $10,000 and Paulette Goddard. Perhaps it's Hitler's fault, but telling the truth isn't very funny any more...