Word: baits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moscow. Soviet Russia is normally one of the largest importers of German goods. The Kremlin stood ready to cancel millions of dollars of German contracts, were holding them out as bait for U. S. recognition...
Rare is the U. S. editor who has not snorted at the studied effronteries of George Bernard Shaw, recognizing them for what they frankly are: publicity bait. But rarer is the U. S. editor, as Mr. Shaw knows, who can resist printing readable copy. When his beard was red, Shaw's neatly phrased insults were truly startling. White-bearded now and more self-consciously rude, he still saws away so skilfully on his single string that the results are as monotonously fascinating as Oriental music. They and the magnificently photographable beard still keep him in the newspapers more steadily...
...orchestra. But he keeps more regular hours now, leaves Baltimore less often. He reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn once a year, enjoys talking philosophy and theology with Baltimore priests. For shrewd Bishop James Cannon Jr., whose Methodist Episcopal Church, South, along with the Baptists, Editor Mencken used to bait and belabor so vociferously, he now has a genuine admiration ("I'd hardly call him a merry fellow, but he is amiable, intelligent. . . . Very few living Americans are so interesting...
North Florida disgraced itself in Republican eyes last week when its fish turned Democratic and refused to take President Hoover's bait. As in Ossabaw Sound off Georgia the week before, the President trolled his line for hours in the waters about Fernandina but caught nothing worth keeping. Disgusted, he ordered the U. S. S. S. Sequoia, his holiday craft, to wind its way down the coast through the twisty inland waterway to better fun and fishing. Progress was slow through shoal waters. Twice the Sequoia grounded. The President baked in the sun, played Hoover-ball, worked...
...golden eagle on a light brown background. Its uniform: black belted jacket, striped trousers, military cap. Its program: replacement of the Cabinet by a dictatorial council, government control of public utilities and shipping, increase in income tax, death duties, dividend tax; lowering of land taxes and local rates (bait for the farmers and petit bourgeois that are the mainstay of Fascism in every country...