Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foto's, first appearance. Readers got 66 pages in rotogravure of photographs intended to raise the reader's hair, hackles or eyebrows. Most appalling shot: the corpse of a New York sneak-thief who garroted himself when he stumbled and was caught by the neck in a trap door...
...Loch Ness, Scotland, first fabled in the world press in 1933. Opener of its 1937 season was an announcement by the Right Rev. Sir David Oswald Hunter Blair, Bart, (no kin to Dr. Reid Blair) that, at the age of 83, he was organizing an expedition to trace and trap the creature, bring it back alive...
...French Secret Service and is confirmed in her suspicions of Benoit. Unwittingly she falls in love with her prey only to find she has betrayed him to the German office. After heart-rending scenes in which both women vio to save their lover from tragedy, Benoit escapes the death trap. Erna is slain by her Prussian affiliate when captured, but Benoit and the post-mistress join hands unscathed...
...following information concerning a local police trap operated in Bay St. Louis, Miss. is of interest to all commercial travellers who have occasion to pass through that State. In publishing this warning you will be doing thousands of travelling men a great favor and help to break up this racket. The following is an exact and truthful resume of what happened to me. For substantiation I enclose the official documents in the case...
...tropical summer or to stretch out winter to the crack of doom. It's the time for a dash on the young colt through country lanes in Connecticut, for tramping over wet hills, bag over shoulder, pushing a golf ball from bog to bog, trap to trap, and every so often sinking a birdie. Time to rise with the dawn, and hark to the lark in the trees by the edge of the lake in the morning mist, and watch the forsythia push forth in glory. And for the evening there's time to push to the metropolis...