Word: baits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelt Week. No less active on the eve of the convention were Governor Roosevelt and his aides. James A. Farley, Roosevelt preconvention manager, turned up early in Chicago where he began dangling vice-presidential bait before lesser candidates. He hired the presidential suite at the Congress Hotel. Would Candidate Roosevelt go to Chicago, appear before a deadlocked convention to win the nomination? At Albany the Governor laughed, talked of "hot weather reports," would not say yes or no. John E. Mack, Poughkeepsie Democrat, onetime State Supreme Court justice, was selected as the Roosevelt nominator...
...fish, annotated with incidents from Author Ray Bergman's copious fishing notebooks. Unlike most expert anglers. Author Bergman considers worm-fishing for trout permissible, particularly ! for beginners. He starts his book with a chapter telling how to do it. An expert worm fisherman told him how to bait the hook: " 'Catch hold of the skin at two places . . . so the ends will wiggle. Some fellers claim that the point of the hook showin' scares the fish but that's all wrong.'. . ." When a trout bites, " 'lower the tip of the pole a minute...
...jungles near Singapore three man-eating tigers staged a man-eating contest. Winner was one known as the Killer of Kuali, with 35 deaths. Mr. Buck wanted one of his victims used to bait a trap, but that was against the law. "To hell with that law!" said Buck, and whispered his secret to a Tamil shooter. A few days later the Tamil posed a dead Malay as bait, shot the killer...
...innocence. It accents spectacle and pace, largely ignores plot implications. Conrad Veidt, an expert in menace parts who resembles Alfred Lunt, lets his face alone in this picture and is as cheerful a villain as he can be a gloomy hero. Lil Dagover is also on view as Tsar-bait. The Hollywood technique of getting the maximum out of a gag or situation is notably lacking in Congress Dances, hence its U. S. success is doubtful. Good shots: Metternich in a darkroom reading code despatches against an illuminated glass screen; legs in the ballet; the fake Tsar doing fancy needlework...
...Kienli District which has a "Communist" bandit government. The Kienli bandits ferried Capt. Baker ashore, a most-valuable bit of salvage, and held him for ransom. Capt. Baker's friends promptly paid. This seemed so easy, the bandits of Kienli kept the money and the Captain, dangled their bait again & again. On one occasion the productive Captain was sent out into the middle of a river while his friends ferried $5.000 ashore from a Chinese gunboat. Then the Captain was jerked back and the gunboat did not dare fire for fear of killing him. Most recent note read...