Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is just 1,000 times what the first Waring orchestra drew down for its first engagement, in Tyrone, Pa., 21 years ago. Fred, 18, was then in Penn State, studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley McClintock, had a two-piece piano & drums outfit that used to pick up occasional pin money playing for Victory dances, etc. They invited Fred, a violinist who preferred the banjo to join in. Another banjoist, Fred Buck, joined too. Four-strong, they barnstormed Pennsylvania's busy mining district, picked...
...Thetis' crew could do so little to save themselves, there were two major explanations: 1) the tilted escape chamber proved a death trap; 2) the Thetis' crew did not start to save itself until its air was fouled and bilge water had begun to wet the batteries, releasing chlorine gas. Says the escape manual of the U. S. Navy, father of the submarine: "It is emphasized that if attempted individual escape is delayed until the first stages of asphyxia have developed, it will probably be too late successfully to accomplish...
Rumpel-Stilts-Kin (Decca). The Merry Macks-three boys, one pretty girl and a left-handed trap drummer - record the newest of the swift, adroit, hot vocalizations that they have been airing over the big networks for a year...
Sponge-rubber bait, for mousetraps, which cannot be nibbled off without springing the trap...
...sent it back to California for remailing, set the FBI to watch for its cashing, and told people to watch him catch Bud Gearhart taking a bribe. When he got the check, Bud Gearhart returned it to Mrs. Achilles honestly and promptly. Then he learned of Elliott's trap for him. Last week he defended himself before a full house, flayed Elliott for a damnable dastard. One by one, Democratic colleagues of Alfred Elliott left their seats near him. Had he pressed for a vote, Bud Gearhart could doubtless have caused Democrat Elliott to be the first Representative formally...