Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several weeks proclamations have been posted in the Islands saying: "News has reached me that another uprising is being planned. . . . All that is a trap set by our enemies. . . . No one should believe it. The Sakdalistas have no other duty than to be peaceful and await my return. . . . I urge the temporary dissolution of the Party. . . . So long as the Party exists, snakes will surely hide behind it, especially at present when it is both rainy and hot. . . . [The Party] will be revived as soon as I return-Benigno Ramos...
...canes, has set his heart on becoming proprietor of a heavyweight champion prizefighter. The Root screen play shows how a G-man (Robert Young), who has inherited a promising young plug-ugly from a brother the racketeer has killed, uses this obsession to bait a dangerous but efficient trap. Good shot: Emerald snubbing the G-Man's accomplice (Florence Rice) for trying to excite him by pulling her dress up to her knees...
...defending Irun the proletarian militia supporting the Government, which had been deserted by most of its Army, carefully mined the terrain over which it was thought Generalissimo Franco's forces must advance. This trap was betrayed to the White forces by their sympathizers in the Government camp fortnight ago, and last week they were able to avoid it and get down to straight fighting...
...puts down the sardonic comments on tall tales: "Go on, I'm listening." . . . "Aw shut up, close your trap, button your tongue, you talk too much." He lists the common exaggerations that are so common their mockery is seldom heard...
Moody disconsolate, unnerved at Gardner's courtship, Selma thought of marriage as a trap set particularly for her, was sometimes swept off her feet by Gardner s ardor and exasperated by his arrogance At last he told her: "You mistake a morbid imagination ... for intellect...