Word: snare
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...decentralized to a certain extent by the basis laid for regional work last week-end. Top heavy, centralized organization in a geographical unit of the size of the United States would lay the Federation open immediately to all sorts of objections which are too obvious to be detailed. This snare, again, the N. S. T. A. has avoided...
...screen, behind which Chinamen cranked the expedition's cinema camera. The hunters saw one huge reptile chase, catch and drag down a horse. Several specimens were shot and will be mounted for the American Museum. Three were taken alive by the method small boys employ to snare rabbits: a noose dangling from a bent sapling. The largest of the three escaped, traveling far faster than...
Hour examinations found the luckless Widow struggling hard to keep body and soul together. At Christmas time Uncle Bim blew into town. Carlos and his female accomplice, Carlotta, spent the whole month of January in laying a snare for the big hearted millionaire. At the beginning of February the trap was sprung so that the story took on a most exciting finale which culminated last Saturday when the lion-hearted Andy held Carlos and Carlotta at the point of his gun until the police arrived...
...Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine, one De Mouche, farmer, put on his hunting cap, took his long gun in hand, and went out to visit his rabbit snares. Sure enough, in the first snare cowered a furry creature, pressing its soft white belly against the ground, upturning stricken, opalescent eyes. Farmer De Mouche chuckled. He laid his long shotgun upon the ground and bent to secure his game. But suddenly there was a scuffle behind him; another rabbit leaped out of the bush, sprang upon the shotgun's trigger. "BANG!" Farmer De Mouche received both barrels in his back. Bloody, mangled...
...according to his fashion, around the Apawamis course. There were inumerable prizes?for men over 80, for men over 75, putting contests, best net and best gross cards for 18 and 36 holes. But the medal for the famed event?the championship for men over 50, went to Frederick Snare of Garden City who had turned in a score of 156. Piddling old fellows snorted when they heard of this, and spat their bile into the Club's brass spittoons; others shook their heads over their sour milk, declaring that it was a wonder that a man who went...