Word: baits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year about this time New York's stylista get together and tell the men of the country what they will wear when Spring comes along. Green is to be the dominant shade for 1931 according to the dopesters who apparently feel they no longer need disguise their bait. Or, if one refuses to look for mercenary motives, the new fashion may be considered a gracious compliment to the sons, of Dartmouth who last Spring told the world about their shorts...
...writer (a subscriber to TIME) has been unable to decide whether this statement is the result of unfortunate ignorance, carelessness, or whether it is merely bait. Be the answer what it may, TIME might have been magnanimous enough to word the sentence: "And is not Ohio a Mother of Presidents...
...Bribe or Bait? Ostentatiously humdrum in style, the two sentences italicized above were in fact the sensational nub of the King-Emperor's speech: the Labor Party's speech. The first pledges Scot MacDonald to risk the very life of his Labor Cabinet by asking Parliament to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill, which was passed to prevent a recurrence of Great Britain's paralyzing "General Strike" (TIME, May 10 to May 24, 1926). It has generally been expected that the Liberal Party would side against the Labor Cabinet on this issue and thus produce the Cabinet...
...Minister MacDonald, by promising this reform, had bought the votes of Liberal Leader David Lloyd George & cohorts, would use them to repeal the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill. But prominent Liberals refused to confirm any such bargain. The promise of reform was evidently not a bribe, but a bait...
...which produced the Austin Seven, Mr. Ford is selling a 15.9-h. p. car in Britain for £185. But if the buyer will take this British Ford with a 24-h. p. engine, he can have the higher powered vehicle for £5 less. By such tempting bait Ford Motor Co., Ltd. hope to lure Britons into buying full-sized cars, paying the "excessive" yearly tax, agitating for its repeal...