Word: baits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madrid in 1912 the French proprietor of a motorcycle shop owned a French biplane which he crashed during an exhibition. Chagrined, he dumped the wreckage in his back yard. To chubby, 17-year-old Juan de la Cierva and two cronies, this was tempting bait. They offered to rebuild the plane if the Frenchman would test-fly it. Laughingly he agreed. All that was salvageable were the motor and wheels. All the resources the three boys had were $60 and a knowledge of arithmetic. Nonetheless, to Madrid's amazement, their jerry-built contraption flew. It was the first Spanish...
...clumsy attempt at fraud, discovered the samples averaged $25 a ton, paid cash for the claim, thinking the would-be crook had pounded gold into a gold mine unwittingly. But it developed that the crook had foreseen that line of reasoning, done a crude job of salting as bait, then an expert job of salting the samples, escaped in the double double-crossing that followed...
...Frenchman, known by Philadelphians as one of their regular clarinetists. After Cailliet's Bach came Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto with Fritz Kreisler as soloist, forerunning such headliners as Josef Hofmann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitzki, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett, Artur Schnabel, all sure bait for customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell was sure, while Ormandy kept courteously to the background for the 61-year-old fiddler who, according to his irrepressible wife last week, "would be good if he would only practice." Ormandy 's strongest...
...weak he cannot walk without two canes, has set his heart on becoming proprietor of a heavyweight champion prizefighter. The Root screen play shows how a G-man (Robert Young), who has inherited a promising young plug-ugly from a brother the racketeer has killed, uses this obsession to bait a dangerous but efficient trap. Good shot: Emerald snubbing the G-Man's accomplice (Florence Rice) for trying to excite him by pulling her dress up to her knees...
...going to try it!" snapped Magistrate F. O. Langly. who imposed a fine of 40 shillings and ordered Auctioneer Penfold to post ?50 ($250) surety that he will not bait Jews for twelve months...