Word: baiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fisherman, not with rod and reel but with a bamboo pole and a piece of old string with which, from the swamp-bordered streams of his State, he pulls out many a "red breast." Only an old Negro, son of his father's slave, accompanies him, knows his bait. He is the Senate's most active tobacco chewer. A spittoon, into which he sends two streams of juice every five minutes, sits close to his desk on the Senate floor. Another Smith habit is whittling anything he puts his hands on. In 15 years in the same Senate...
...rangy cadets of St. John's Military Academy at Delafield, Wis., are very, very good boys this summer, apart from their religious duties of attending evensong five times a week and chapel on Sundays, they will learn quite a lot about fly-and bait-casting. For last week that famed itinerant casting-expert "Smiling Bill" Vogt said definitely that during July & August he would show St. John's cadets how he works. He has signed a performance contract with Col. Roy Felton Farrand, St. John's graduate and president.* "Smiling Bill" Vogt is a hulky six-footer...
...above the ground. To an airplane he tastened a 50-ft. cord, a 1-ft. string, an old black sock, 18 in. long, 4 in. in diameter. The plane then swooped in an arc 100 ft. above him, the sock streaking out behind it. With a 5½-ft. bait-casting rod and a line with a nine-hook plug, he hooked the sock and jerked it from the string on three out of five tries...
...hill clattered a Ford bearing the local representative of the R.F.D. Out he jumped, surveyed the situation, and then attacked a road-side sapling with an axe he carried in his car. With the aid of this and a few flat stones to serve for what he called a "bait" but what the Vagabond's physics professors would have termed a fulcrum, the errant auto was soon back on the road...
Conservatives have been grooming "Old Gwilym" for years in his role of bait, have twice tried and failed to get him elected to Parliament from a worker constituency, are trying again. In 1927 he championed with jovial humbuggery the Trade Dispute's Act-probably the most tyrannical piece of legislation ever passed in England to squelch strikes...