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...pantomime; Swami Auer winning Wrestler Lahr's bout for him with levitation's artful aid; Barytone Lahr's "Song of the Woodman" ("What do we chop when we chop a tre-e-e? Buckets for the well, poles for American Tel. and Tel. . . . The better mouse trap, the movie mag, the mast to hoist our country's flag . . . that's what we chop when we cha-ha-ha-hop a tree"). Submarine D-1 (Warner Brothers). Behind an array of such box-office buoys as sailors named Butch, Sock and Lucky (Pat O'Brien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...told his grim-faced audience that "an insult motivated my crime." In an ironic gesture he willed the revolver he used to the U. S. Congress. Then, with hands strapped, hood over his eyes, he pierced the chill silence with a shout, "A bas Washington!" (Down with Washington!). The trap was sprung and his body plumped down through the opening, jerked to a sudden stop as the rope became taut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Down with Washington! | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Dartmouth, and Princeton we have seen three varying degrees of success which the Harlow strategy can enjoy. Against Navy, the flaw in the team's scoring ability was most evident. When in midfield, with the Navy defenses necessarily spread out to guard against the Crimson pas threat, the mouse trap type of deception worked quite well. But once inside the twenty, when the Midshipmen secondary could accordion in a bit and the linemen could therefore risk being mousetrapped and charge in toward the center, the attack was stopped dead. In order to execute a mousetrap play, there must necessarily...

Author: By Donald B. Straus, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

...abstractions to the tribesmen) and because he really wanted to marry her. In time, having won enough prestige to make his own law. he settled down happily with his "tawny Venus'' and raised a family. Nearly eight years later, when a Spanish vessel appeared, he engineered a trap to kill its crew. But in a sudden burst of homesickness for Spain he swam to the ship to identify himself. A few hours on board was enough. That night he slid over the side and struck out happily for shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutiny With Magellan | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...Bangor patrolmen and a squad of Indiana and Maine State troopers posted outside the store as soon as a member of the Brady gang came in. As Walsh moved to pull a cord which would, set a signal in the window, Dalhover realized that he had walked into a trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tough Customers | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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