Word: baiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this the only beating Gambler-Publisher Bonfils suffered during the week. The Post started to run Chickie, a fiction serial proved by trial in other cities as infallible bait for morons. But the flapper-heroine had scarcely been seduced before the News saved all Denver the petty pace of many tomorrows by flooding the city with Chickie, complete in book form, free with News want ads. . . . The circulation manager of the Post resigned...
...sources: 62 Democrats (from Mr. Jacobstein to Mr. Swank); the lone Socialist, Mr. Berger; the entire Farmer-Laborite group, Messrs. Carss, Kvale, Wefald; Republican insurgents such as Mr. Frear of Wisconsin, Mr. Sosnow-ski, the Pole from Detroit, Mr. La Guardia of New York, who is now trying to bait Secretary Kellogg. It was a wave of pacifism rather than any great love of President Coolidge which brought these votes into the fold...
Citizens of Rio de Janeiro fortified themselves for the worst and visited the Zoological Gardens last week. There, in a caged watertank, lay 24 feet and 352 pounds of mottled horror. Hunters had stalked the jungle for nine months. Wary of their prey they had laid a great bait. At last he had come, eunectes murinus, the snatcher, coiling dangerously out of a dark stream. They took him after he had gorged and lay inert. Natives clustered about chattering, "Sucuri! Sucuri!" (local term for a reptile). They dreaded the monster as do all hunters save immediately after its meal, which...
...support of the lighter minded. As has been stated by sincere and mighty men in the church and in the ranks of research little is gained by a struggle between irreconcilables whose views are as biased as their voices are harsh with the sibilance of sustained animosity. To bait an eledrly gentleman whose convictions are unpopular for the edification of minds who see in "modernism" ultimate salvation is, at best, a sorry game. And what little Dr. Mather can say to clarify this nebulous issue will possess the inadequacy of forced condensation. The whole affair, in the light of serious...
...finding the Burdens there, took them on a reconnaissance flight over the island's jungled, mountainous interior. Sighting the quarry from the air, the Burdens fetched their comrades to the spot, taking along bear-traps, stout cages, rifles. Slain deer and boars were used to bait the lizards up to a screen, behind which Chinamen cranked the expedition's cinema camera. The hunters saw one huge reptile chase, catch and drag down a horse. Several specimens were shot and will be mounted for the American Museum. Three were taken alive by the method small boys employ to snare...