Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hour examinations found the luckless Widow struggling hard to keep body and soul together. At Christmas time Uncle Bim blew into town. Carlos and his female accomplice, Carlotta, spent the whole month of January in laying a snare for the big hearted millionaire. At the beginning of February the trap was sprung so that the story took on a most exciting finale which culminated last Saturday when the lion-hearted Andy held Carlos and Carlotta at the point of his gun until the police arrived...
...Washington time) Harry Garbutt sank through the trap of the San Quentin gallows. As he mounted the gallows steps he confessed to a guard: "I fired the shot. Of course, I didn't mean...
Over "that un," as he recognized the trap in which he had permitted himself to be caught, there passed dismay, mortification and sheepish acquiescence. Commanded by custom "that un" had no course but to accept the derelict's defense and look forward to the official fee of ?1. "That un" was no less a personage than Sir Travers Humphreys, Recorder of Chichester, Senior Counsel to the Treasury at Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) since 1916, one of London's most eminent attorneys. Ordinarily Sir Travers' fees never think of halting short of four figures...
Both sides seek guarantees, the one against sudden wage reduction, the other both against the snooping investigations that were latent in the first proposal of the miners and against the trap of fading profits into which a lowered coal price might turn the "frozen wage" scheme. In truth the dangers of fixed wages or prices are too real to be overlooked. A sliding scale relating wages and prices would suit the operators better, but the miners would still fear secret intrigue. With all its defects, the first proposal of the miners is the clearest of all the plans. It requires...
...evacuation of Manhattan, General Knox ordered a brigade into a little fort which was rapidly being surrounded. Major Burr rode up and argued with Knox. Knox was obstinate. So Burr addressed the men and led them out of the closing trap. At 21, Burr was made Lieutenant Colonel and protested to Washington that others were placed over him. He gained a reputation as a disciplinarian and a leader. He was several times given command of troublesome troops. He established the first organized military intelligence for the Continental army...