Word: mousetrap
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...Mousetrap...
...Joaquin County, Calif., an incendiary fastened sandpaper to the spring of a mousetrap, friction matches to the base. Carefully he pulled the spring back and held it at tension with a piece of adhesive tape. Then he put his contrivance in a grain field and from hiding waited until the sun melted the adhesive and sprang the trap which ignited the matches and set fire to 1,600 acres of grain...
...Washington to enlist in the ranks. A scientific friend called him a "blithering idiot," turned him over to the Chemical Warfare division in which he became a major at 25. He developed the process by which the A. E. F. was supplied with mustard-gas. Later, in "The Mousetrap," an old motor factory near Cleveland surrounded by barbed wire and mystery, he worked 18 hr. a day, slept in his laboratory, managed his jittery subordinates with tact and understanding. Too late for use in the War he perfected a laboratory process for manufacturing sinister, superdeadly Lewisite gas. His two sons...
...Palace last week in high good humor. A little knot of passersby, a few photographers were waiting for them. The pockets of the Prime Minister's neat blue suit bulged with strange objects. While shutters clicked there were impolite but audible comments on what was in them. A mousetrap? Fromage de Brie? Fishhooks...
...fight against death, the intense will to live, in so-called lower animals, is impressive. Under the pantry sink is a small piece of board, and on it, a trigger with cheese attached, and a strong spring that brings down violently a piece of wire running crosswise of the mousetrap...