Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...including the cost of its rental in the rate base, a company official testified a few weeks ago that in an emergency it could turn out power on an hour's notice. "We waited until they had committed themselves fully," said Mr. Beamish smugly, "then we sprang the trap...
When Walter Gibbs bought his land in 1913 he thought he was just going to use it for shooting ducks. But people told him he could easily pay his taxes in muskrat pelts. Mr. Gibbs was pleased to find he could. He invented two traps: one which got the muskrats not only by the leg (which they often gnaw off to escape) but also by the body; another which netted them, captured them alive. Before long he was inventing and manufacturing traps to catch everything from English sparrows to bears. By 1919 he had a large factory in Trainer...
...Cameron Land Co. in the Louisiana bayous, the great U. S. muskrat country. Their pelts retail at from 50? to $1.25., But prime muskrat is black muskrat, whose native habitat is around the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and whose pelts bring $2. With the money he got for his trap factory Mr. Gibbs promptly bought 3,000 acres of muskrat marsh on Currituck Sound, N. C., began transferring his black muskrats south. More than half the 2,400 muskrats he caught alive in Maryland last year he shipped off to breed in North Carolina. Since then he has been busy...
...pantomime; Swami Auer winning Wrestler Lahr's bout for him with levitation's artful aid; Barytone Lahr's "Song of the Woodman" ("What do we chop when we chop a tre-e-e? Buckets for the well, poles for American Tel. and Tel. . . . The better mouse trap, the movie mag, the mast to hoist our country's flag . . . that's what we chop when we cha-ha-ha-hop a tree"). Submarine D-1 (Warner Brothers). Behind an array of such box-office buoys as sailors named Butch, Sock and Lucky (Pat O'Brien...
...told his grim-faced audience that "an insult motivated my crime." In an ironic gesture he willed the revolver he used to the U. S. Congress. Then, with hands strapped, hood over his eyes, he pierced the chill silence with a shout, "A bas Washington!" (Down with Washington!). The trap was sprung and his body plumped down through the opening, jerked to a sudden stop as the rope became taut...