Word: trapping
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...gazed at the flowers, Vag began to attach tremendous importance to them, perhaps undue importance. Those tender petals had been the life work of Blaschka pere et fils. They had been publicized by Harvard and sanctified by royalty. And where were they? In a fire-trap if Vag had ever seen...
...Cowl) who fixes things to suit herself. The slapstick is the same that, 200 years ago. drew tears of laughter from simple London cits and beefy German burghers: mistaken identity, boys dressed up as girls, people hiding under tables, lurking in clothes presses, listening behind screens, popping out of trap doors...
Detectives went to the house in Bay Ridge, in the stable discovered a trap door and a cache of hair. They also found that Philip Musica had been reading a book on extradition laws, had left it open at a passage about Honduras...
...hoped that sometime, somewhere, she will be made to play a whole scene with her hands in her pockets. But Miss Cowl is not the whole show by any means. Percy Waram is grand as the stingy and irascible Vanergelder, known to his subordinates as the "wolf trap". Tom Ewell, in the role of Cornelius Hackl who is getting away from it all for the first time in his life at the age of 33, is corking. June Walker, staunch old trooper, turns in an adequate performance and John Call, Joseph Sweeney, Bartlett Robinson (who looks startlingly like a Bennington...
...Congress. Mr. Dies lately has given the U. S. a Congressional investigation. By the standards of past masters at inquisition his performance has not been brilliant. Ex-Senator (now Associate Justice) Hugo L. Black was at his best with a hostile witness, knowing well how to bait the trap, when to spring it. Senator Robert M. La Follette also knows the uses of the subtle query. Mr. Dies knows chiefly how to bellow. Last week he had the thrill of seeing his bellowing affect not just the ear of some baffled layman but the tympanums of that knowing politician...