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Word: decoys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Martin O'Leary, Ernest Ross, David Miller, Fred Fisher, wanted for the murder of Policeman Ray Martin, a decoy in the Louis Blumenthal kidnaping and extortion plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...normal. But whatever dislocation there may be, is not, as has been assumed by the protagonists in the discussions, the kind that permanently warps the subject. One cannot help arriving at the conclusion that a good deal of powder has been wasted on what is truly a decoy duck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colleges Again | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...water darkened from shore-sea green to mid-sea blue. Through it trailed 30 yards of Hoover line, baited with a strip of bonito flesh. Near it on another line flipped and danced an oreno teaser, a wood and aluminum decoy.* Silent minutes made a silent hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 25 Minutes; 45 Pounds | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard's ball within drop-kicking distance and Captain C.E. Brickley '15, injured and on the bench, was sent into the fray apparently to try for a goal from the field and the satisfaction of scoring against Yale in the year of his captaincy. Using Brickley as a decoy, far out of the way of harm, Watson '16, at quarter, proceeded to score a touchdown by a seres of five plays, ending in a forward pass to Hardwick. Brickley had the satisfaction of kicking the goal after touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Football Series a History of Two Waves of Victory | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...from Arthur Curtiss James, famed yachtsman and the largest individual U. S. holder of railroad securities, an apartment house on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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