Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delayed Action. In Angers, France, Jean Pocret, who had been mildly annoyed for the past four years by a strange lump in his mattress, finally ripped it open to find an unexploded German booby-trap mine...
...Headed by Harvard's emeritus Ralph Barton Perry, and including Princeton's emeritus Christian Gauss, Columbia's Henry Steele Commager, Henry Seidel Canby, 100-odd others. *In 1944 he campaigned unsuccessfully for state senator (his strategy: "Mostly to keep my trap shut...
...forecourt in the wake of his stinging service. For a moment or two, the crowd thought they might be seeing a tennis match. But by the seventh game, Parker had figured out the Sidwell serve, and was methodically running the Australian ragged with lobs to the base line and trap shots just over the net. Parker won without cracking a smile or dropping...
...Trap. For a long time they had been planning to trap someone of Wallace's stature, but they were not sure just who the quarry would be. They began in Sidney Hillman's C.I.O.-P.A.C., whose simple objective was to make labor's influence felt in the Democratic Party. But the secret aim of pro-Communist operators like Hillman's counsel, John Abt, was to weld radical labor groups, disaffected Democrats and odds & ends of disgruntled Americans into a third party. Obviously, they would need a candidate. Collaborating with the proCommunists were such New Dealers...
...them concern shady ladies and double meanings. All are delivered in a scrape-fiddle soprano, with a prodigality of gesture and squirrel teeth. Perhaps Elsa's audiences like best the one about a wealthy, overstuffed New England heiress who builds a gazebo (latticed bower) in which to trap a mate. She coyly invites...