Word: decoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gangster (Nat Pendleton), both of whom mistake Pat for the thief. The gangster has orders from the Big Fellow in Manhattan to deliver Pat as a willy-nilly ally. No sooner has the boat docked than Pat is hurried away by gangsters, told she must do a decoy dance that night when a Mrs. Van Tuyl, wearing a load of diamonds, shows up at the night club. When the time comes Pat does her enforced bit up to a point, then suddenly covers the crooks with confusion and limelight as they close in around the sparkling neck and bosom...
Gloomy Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland knew that Coach Jim Phelan had drilled the Huskies to watch Marshall Goldberg. 18-year-old Panther halfback. He kept Goldberg out of his attack, used him as a decoy to suck in the defense while Bobby LaRue and Frank Patrick took the ball away. Eel-hipped Patrick's spinners knifed long gashes in the famed Washington line. LaRue pointed his knees at the Husky ends, hitting top speed in a stride or two while his interference took out the secondary defense as if they thought each play was a potential touchdown...
...cries of "Daddy," his romance is doomed. When Judson Craig's young assistant agrees that Precious and her mother (Alice Brady) are a mercenary pair, Joan Craig falls in love with him. When the assistant arranges to have a fake Czech count (Mischa Auer) pose as a millionaire decoy for Precious, a genuine English lord (Ray Milland) takes his place by accident, begins a romance with Kay Craig. It devolves on Penny to administer the knockout punch to her father's mesalliance almost at the altar. She does it by running away, singing arias in a police station...
Debate continued on the Government's announced intention to send Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to Geneva to get Sanctions lifted. Snapped Labor's Sir Stafford Cripps: "He goes as the Government's decoy duck!" Against the abandonment of Sanctions His Majesty's Loyal Opposition further battled by presenting a motion to censure His Majesty's Government. Result: victory 384-to-170 for Stanley Baldwin...
...revenue agents went after him in earnest, discovered that he was at the bottom of a ring which was "cutting" legal liquor, selling it under Government tax stamps. When State Department authorities sent word last fortnight that Torrio was applying again for a passport, revenue agents mailed him a decoy registered letter, arrested him at the White Plains, N. Y. post office as he appeared to collect it. Unimpressed by Torrio's lawyer, who insisted his client was now a respectable realtor who had long ago settled his in come tax troubles with Washington, a U. S. Commissioner...