Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the collaboration of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, a trap was set in the Embassy with a Scotland Yard agent replacing Clerk Kent and taking all his telephone calls. Into it fell an attractive, 37-year-old White Russian emigree, Anna Wolkov. Weak Clerk Kent, in love with Anna Wolkov and fanatically antiSemitic, had been persuaded to pass on information and documents to his inamorata, who then was suspected of sending them across the Irish Sea to the German Legation in Dublin...
...teary, highly successful Mayerling-submits the suggestion that Franz Ferdinand's and Sophie's double assassination at Sarajevo was more than the accidental success of a Bosnian anarchist; that Austrian ministers, frightened by the Archduke's democratic leanings, purposely led him into the death trap...
Some 120 more waited in southern France with the desperate stolidity of animals who hear the hunter coming toward the trap. In the U. S. two committees were trying to get them out. One was the Emergency Rescue Committee, which claims to have brought to the U. S. since last July some 50 writers-in-exile, including Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Konrad Heiden, Leonhard Frank. The other was the Exiled Writers Committee, a sprout of the leftist-controlled League of American Writers. The two committees seemed to be getting in each other's hair...
...just love to play those Princeton boys," said Dick Harlow two years ago, fresh from a convincing 26 to 7 conquest over the Tigers in Soldiers Field. The mouse-trap offense worked to perfection this afternoon...
Decorated after his French suicide tank unit fought its way out of a German Panzer division trap in the Battle of France, Lieutenant Robert Gueiroard, a student at the Business School, returned to peace and quiet in Cambridge last night with his Radcliffe wife, who had waited for him in Paris...