Word: decoys
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...learned & observant electrician & founder of General Electric Co., Dr. Elihu Thomson, 78, inventor of electric welding and more than 700 other patented ideas, onetime acting president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an unusually practical man, last week proposed to decoy male mosquitoes to a multitudinous death. The idea developed in this fashion...
...their own merits, or with their old, softened colors had something of the ingenuous attractiveness of the early work of the French Customs Agent Henri Rousseau. There were few such pictures for sale at the Folk Art Gallery. Instead there was a wide variety of cigar store Indians, wooden decoy ducks,* hobby horses, cast iron hitching posts, cast iron stove plates, weather vanes and examples of tatting and painting on velvetEN...
Tennessee game wardens sent decoy letters to M. E. Bogle. They shadowed his bird-cage trucks, finally unearthed a huge quail ring whereby two men in two years had bought and distributed 80,000 quail illegally trapped by farmers in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama...
...that Director John Ford has romanticized. All the action is highly theatrical: a jumble of spywork, gunfire, carousal, submarine heroism, with some brilliant photography of sea-scenes. The photography is all that recommends it, for the dialog is inept and the story of the Mystery Ship sent out as decoy for a German submarine and the beautiful German spy who loves a U. S. officer but sees him kill her brother in the course of duty, gets laughs in the wrong places. There is no one of note in the cast. Best shot: sinking...
...told to Fred H. Thompson, formerly of the Boston Post." In infinite, fanciful detail it elaborates the dark story given out two years ago by newspapers: that Constance, youngest daughter of the Morrows, after receiving a threatening letter at Milton Academy, Mass., was stealthily whisked away and a decoy left in her place to trap the blackmailers (TIME, June 3, 1929). (No blackmailers were trapped.) Colonel Lindbergh flew Anne. Elisabeth. Constance and their mother to the Morrow summer home in Maine for a secluded visit, thence back to their Englewood, N. J. home where the newshawk army, unaware...