Word: decoying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public eye than either had ever been before. With elaborate cunning, he constructed his plan. Mlle. Roseray would go into Central Park and give an imitation of a woman trying, not very hard, to commit suicide; she would be rescued by sensation seekers who, with shouts and squealings, might decoy a few newshawks to the scene of action. Newshawks would then fly to the home of Mlle. Roseray; there they would find a note addressed to the proprietor of her night club, a suicide note, of which this was to be the purport: "Because, you see, I love...
...stolen the money to pay for her theatrical ventures. Infuriated when she refuses to marry him, this suitor goes to the South Seas to kill his rival but remains to convince him that the lady has deceived both of them in her greed for gold. Accordingly they decoy her to the South Seas that they may punish her for so doing. Eventually, when her innocence becomes apparent, her first inamorata punches the young man-about-town, apologizes to the lady for his faint faith and prepares for a wedding...
...partial glossary of terms with which First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett will no longer have to cope: beats-mail needing re-addressing or "unknown" bumper-2nd to 4th class cancelling stamp burns-damaged tie sacks clock ("on the" and "off the")-On or off duty decoy-matter mailed to catch crooks graveyard shift-9 p. m. to 5 a. m. green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin...
William Whiteley, son of a country grain dealer, came to London and opened a draper's shop while the U.S. Civil War raged. He put his trust in window displays, at a time when storekeepers had to decoy customers into their murky shops. Victorians were dazzled, and he became the "Universal Provider." When shot to death* in 1907, he had a business worth $4,500,000. This, since the War, has supported the model garden village of Burhill, near Walton on the Thames, where several hundred aged men and women workers, indigents, prolong a lean existence in 300 cottages...
...Decoy Revolution. Equally rash was a proclamation of revolution in Mexico by a band of little known men supposed to be Mexican Knights of Columbus, but suspected of being decoy agents of the Calles regime. One Rene Capistran Garza proclaimed himself "Provisional President of Mexico," though he remained in hiding; and the whole movement which claimed to be supported by onetime under "Generals" of Pancho Villa loomed ridiculous. The Government rashly made this "revolt" an excuse for terrorism in the interior...