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Although both he and Miss Thompson were oppressed by the feeling of being constantly spied upon, and although each tried the experiment of leaving private papers in calculated disarray around their hotel rooms, neither was ever able to detect the slightest tampering with their documentary bait...
That sentence was rich reading and spiced bait for U. S. investors who may soon call up their brokers, crying: "Buy Wagons-Lits...
Greedy photographers for weeks had been circling silently, hungrily around a little house in Manhattan's tangled Greenwich Village. They had prowled darkly through abutting houses, peering out of windows, climbed walls, offered bribes. The bait was a baby. The baby's mother was Grace Mailhouse Burnham. The baby's father was unknown. Baby Vera had been eugenically conceived and born. Intelligent, well-to-do Mother Burnham had wanted a baby. These facts she admitted freely (TIME, Jan. 30). Newspapers empurpled columns with the history, speculated as to papa, collected opinions from bigwigs and gumchewers. To deepen...
...stayed at the Metropolitan through the "Golden Age" when Gadski, Nordica, the de Reszkes, David Bispham and Schumann-Heink were making German music, when Fritzi Scheff was the bait for tired starched magnates, when berthas and hourglass figures were the fashion...
...defeated and killed General Custer at Little Big Horn. From his many Western descendants, Sitting Bull would appear to have been as prolific as the Mayflower was capacious. (I Fishermen everywhere were shocked to learn that President Coolidge, on his first fishing expedition in Squaw Creek, had used worm-bait in catching five trout. Flies, they said, were the only proper trout-bait, but the President specifically stated that he had used worms and showed a coffee-can full of wrigglers to prove it. He said, however, that next time he would use flies. The President's prize catch...