Word: decoys
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...smilingly dismiss his apologetic explanations as the wily alibis of a desperate criminal. It continues when Jones, released with a safe-conduct to prevent his being arrested again, returns to his dingy room and finds Murderer Mannion waiting to steal the safe-conduct and use Jones as a decoy. It ends when Jones finally lives up to his brave exterior by helping to kill Mannion, collecting $25,000 reward, marrying the stenographer whom he has always bashfully adored...
Author Vanderbilt (now 36) bade a tentative farewell to Fifth Avenue some years ago, when, against the advice and consent of his family, he first tried to become a newshawk and turned out to be a decoy. Like an ocean traveler on a slowly departing liner, he continues to wave good-by long after the shore crowd's handkerchiefs are dry. Farewell to Fifth Avemie rehashes, in pseudo-Northcliffe journalese, the high spots of Author Vanderbilt's career as poor little rich boy. Vanderbilt readers may find it annoying; to non-Vanderbilts it will seem either shocking...
...first issue of Western Trails Subscriber-Convict Capone may read "Maverick Law," "Double-Barreled Decoy," "Branded with Lead," "Trigger Tempest." He may correspond and exchange cowboy songs with Miss Billie Arnette of Troy, Ohio, who is 5 ft. 7 in. with light brown wavy hair and grey eyes and belongs to the "Pen Pards" of Western Trails. By answering advertisements he may learn to play the guitar in ten minutes, break himself of the tobacco habit, sell tear-gas pencils to his friends, discover how to have a baby, learn to be a Secret Service...
...cane on which are carved the faces of all Hungary's kings from Attila to Franz Josef. The Earl of Gosford displayed himself and pipes. Authoress Joan Lowell lent some 50 quarter-inch Central American dolls. Others volunteered their stamps, coins, needlepoint pictures, ship models, salt cellars, decoy ducks, penny banks...
...from miles around. There was much dancing, and merriment which reached its height when one of the local officials fell into the river. As we had calculated, the guests left the Harvard ball about midnight. But our ruse failed, for in a few hours they returned with our decoy brew and remained with us until seven o'clock in the morning. The promise about fights was not strictly kept...