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STOCKHOLM--British and Norwegian troops have surrounded 3500 Germans in a "final assault" on the iron ore port of Narvik, a Norwegian spokesman claimed tonight, and the jaws of another trap were reported closing on German-held Trondheim...
...before the play begins, was accused of some Lizzie-Bordenish ax murders and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict Not Proven. She changes her name and lives down her past, but when her son becomes engaged, his fiancee's godfather spots the mother. In his efforts to trap her, and hers not to be trapped, the play becomes fairly dramatic. But a play should become fairly dramatic before...
Downtown, the President observed the proceedings with interest. Last July his $870,000,000 Spend-Lend bill was killed by this same House on grounds of economy, and he was loudly assailed as a wastrel and profligate. Warily Mr. Roosevelt prepared a trap last week. The bait: Relief. One morning Secretary Steve Early announced that the President would soon send up his spring Relief message, expected to forecast a $1,000,000,000 appropriation for the fiscal year...
...Ways he finds an almost ideal character for his talents: the last fugitive priest in a hypothetical Red-ruled Mexico. Small, shabby, bad-toothed, alternately disguised as tramp or peon, he cunningly eludes a fanatic young police lieutenant, ditches a burrlike stool pigeon, at last walks deliberately into a trap when he is summoned to hear the confession of a dying gringo bandit...
...Luhan, whose laconic realism appealed to her. ("What is your religion," asked Mabel. "Life," said Tony.) Rhapsodizing over sagebrush, Mabel then declared: "The rumble of New York came back to me like the impotent and despairing protest of a race that has gone wrong and is caught in a trap...