Word: mantrap
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Lincoln's only guard was drinking at a nearby tavern when Booth struck. While the audience cheered and hooted over a slapstick line in the play ("Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal-you sockdologizimg old mantrap"), Booth slipped into the box. With a shout of "Sic semper tyrannis! [Thus always to tyrants!] " he fired a shot from his derringer into the back of Lincoln's head. He slashed his way past Lincoln's companion leaped ten feet to the stage and, with a broken shinbone' hurtled himself past startled...
...Better Mantrap...
...mainspring of the mantrap, Lauren Bacall is the least convincing of the three. She does her work with a reptile eye and a cold, slit grin. Marilyn Monroe, on the other hand, is pert and comfortable as a not-so-dumb blonde who doesn't like to wear glasses for fear men won't make passes. Betty Grable, a performer who has always appeared to have just about as much above the eyebrows as below, carries off the show with such scenes as the one in which she arrives with her millionaire friend at his "lodge" in Maine...
...Mantrap. In Honolulu, Pfc. J. B. Cumbie, trying to reenlist, was rejected for ear trouble, asked for a discharge, learned that he lacked the necessary points...
...Mantrap No. 2. But the biggest job of organization is not the bringing together of brick and mortar. It is the far more complicated matter of bringing together management and labor. A growing series of strikes, particularly a steel strike, would hamstring production...