Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Times art editor proceeded to set a trap for the Examiner by carefully painting out Fitts's cigaret before printing it. Sure enough, in its final edition, the Examiner appeared with a similar picture, not credited to any photographer or paper, but simply billed as a view of the victim "taken before he was operated upon." The Examiner's, picture of Fitts was exactly like the Times's in every detail, even to the telltale vanished cigaret. A check on the fact that Fitts actually was holding a cigaret as he went to the operating room came...
...Widener thirty years from now, it would be difficult to explain why the Congress acted as it did on the World Court question three years ago . . . . an issue which died obediently at Mr. Hearst's command. Although his opinions and his form of journalism may be much clap-trap, it is an undeniable fact that they help mold public opinion. The record of the times, if it is to be true and impartial, must include the good and the bad. The Hearst press deserves a representative...
...this paper was filed at end of six months the marriage was legal, if torn up at end of six months, no marriage. Had we consulted a lawyer, he would have told us the two witnesses made the marriage legal from the start. We found ourselves in the legal trap-divorce followed...
Dispatched from the post office to bring help, Jack takes to the roofs. When he gets through a trap door in his own attic, with British soldiers at his heels and others coming up the stairs, the household is assembled for a wake for little Mollser Gogan, dead of consumption. Quick-witted Nora saves her husband's life by hiding his gun in Mollser's coffin. When the British soldiers break in a moment later, Jack is squatting beside it, playing cards with his cronies...
...Trap In Manhattan, Hatcheck Girl Katherine Steyer, 32, was electrocuted in her apartment by charged wires strung through the draperies. The wires had been arranged as a burglar trap...