Word: baits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...torturing him, DuPre was safely back in Canada. His evidence in hand, Reporter Collins went to DuPre, cagily asked him about some fictitious "old friends" Collins said he remembered from his own days in British Intelligence, talked nostalgically about nonexistent training camps. "Yes, indeed," said DuPre, rising to the bait. "I knew [them] well." Then Collins told DuPre the awful truth...
Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, rising to the bait of $7,500, warmed up for a week's work at Chicago's Chez Paree, her debut in any such emporium of liquor and lowbrow music. "There will be no Wagner," she promised. "This will be nothing but fun . . ." Her big number: a take-off on Jimmy Durante and Eddie Jackson mangling that sweet old song Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey...
Trouble in Grasse. Last week not everything in the $30 million-a-year French perfume industry smelled sweet to Wertheimer. Italian perfume makers were challenging French supremacy in the U.S. market, and, as always, the Paris market was flooded with cheap, tourist-bait concoctions mixed in some 1,200 Parisian "cellars." Tariff barriers and import restrictions have virtually shut off the big Latin American markets. Things were even worse in the quiet town of Grasse, near the Mediterranean, whose 18 distilling plants supply the French perfume industry with most of its flower essences. Grasse was harvesting a bumper crop...
...TIME, July 20, we read: "Author [Bertrand] Russell uses live bait and barbed hooks, tickles out many a specimen of his lifelong enemies in suburbia...
...Jail Bait. In Fairfield, Iowa, Mrs. Effie Fisher, offered the choice of a $50 fine or 15 days in jail for shooting a squirrel in her back yard, packed her suitcase, told reporters: "I hear they have rats in the jail. I wonder if they'll let me take my rifle with...