Word: baits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baron Inouye, whose purpose seemed to be to bait the Premier and his Cabinet, then made the supposedly superpatriotic and Emperor-worshipping Defense Ministers sweat by demanding: "Will the Army and Navy drive this theory out of Japan...
...send carpetbaggers South to round up the Negro vote, was launched a drive for money to build a new Lincoln library, dining hall, and gymnasium, make many a campus improvement. President Johnson announced the $1,000 check from Alumnus Brooks as the first contribution, put it up as bait for $399,000 more...
...Critic is indeed deeply mortified to learn that it has trod on the toes of Mother Advocate. Certainly this was not its aim. From the beginning we have had not the slightest desire to bait a magazine so steeped in literary tradition and so encumbered with debts. But since Mr. H. M. Wade seems inclined to issue forth from behind the barricades conveniently provided by time and his creditors I suppose we upstarts must defend ourselves...
Those two amiable wage Stuart Erwin and Skeets Gallagter, make "Bachelor Bait" very amusing. It is the story of a matrimonial agency, euphemistically handled, since it is in the hands of a sentimental, timid soul type in Mr. Erwin. Pert Kenton, described at one stage of the proceedings as "not a lady, but rather acting like a top-sergeant of the marines" brings the only expected robust touch to the story of Romance, Incorporated, doing business is lonesome ladies and gentleman...
Seemingly last week Japan was content to let the negotiations remain deadlocked at this point, encouraged Manchukuo to bait Russia. Instead of the release of Soviet railwaymen demanded by Ambassador Yurenev, 70 more were arrested in Manchukuo. In Moscow, where Josef Stalin is not anxious for a fight, correspondents were told that "Russia will not move unless her soil is trod upon." In Tokyo testy old War Minister Senjuro Hayashi, a lion in the field though some what of a peacock in a photographer's studio, blustered...