Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to his nephew-(Nigel Patrick), a spectacularly impecunious peer - long on tradition and short on port. Wouldn't dream of "imposing" on his uncle for a loan. Heavens, no. Only decent thing to do is to murder the old boy. But every time the nephew baits a trap, who gets caught? The paying customer...
...worth. Not too bright, surrounded by the old man's covetous relatives, and wanting only peace and marriage to a weak-willed young man she has fallen in love with, Alberte knows only that she must escape the maze of greed that Threatens to trap her. Refusing her father's money, the young innocent rushes to her lover, who promptly walks out on her when he hears of her incredible folly in spurning a fortune. The book's prevailing color is grey; no touch of humor is added to lend palatability to its provincial harshness. The rewards...
Haynes, who uses a light plane to tend his winter trap line, got an inspiration after Mamie Eisenhower dazzled an inauguration ball with a sparkling gown covered with rhinestones. Said he: "A friend of mine, Jack Walsh, is both a trapper and a jeweler. When Mrs. Eisenhower wore that inauguration dress, all shimmering in pink rhinestones, Jack sold all his rhinestones. He ordered more rhinestones, and sold them too. I said to him, why couldn't we get her to wear beaver...
...safety of a first-period touchdown, sent his ends deep, while his backs held onto the ball as if they never meant to pass. When Miami's defenders finally decided that those ends were merely a decoy, they moved up close to the line, and the Tarheel trap sprang shut. A pair of running passes set up North Carolina's second touchdown, and the Tarheels were out front for keeps...
...Armand in his romantic quest, some of his flunkies bait a tender trap. They transform one of his surplus châteaux into a luxury hotel, designate one room as the Chambre d'Amour, to be rented only to beautiful women under the pretext that the owner of the suite is out of town. Armand's role is to enter the Chambre d'Amour in the night, valise in hand, surprising the sleeping beauty and then gallantly offering to spend the night on the neighboring couch. This bedroom farce promptly nets Armand two discontented wives, whom...