Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brien) and his partner (Robert Armstrong) are to be seen engaged in a man hunt for Gangster Gene Maroc (Cesar Romero) whom they expect to find loitering jealously near his ex-wife (Margaret Lindsay). The crisis of the picture arrives during a wedding ceremony which, planned as a trap for Gangster Maroc, fails when Maroc, instead of shooting the bridegroom, merely snickers at him from the organ loft...
...Every night thereafter Moore would rattle his stick on their railing to make their dogs bark. He also stoned the spinsters' cat, because he said it was after a blackbird that sang in his garden. Both sides appealed to the S. P. C. A. Then Moore set a trap for the cat. He caught the bird. (Moore told this story himself; Yeats doubts its complete integrity...
...with the Bremer case, Federal agents got on his trail, narrowly missed him in the Ozarks, in Cleveland. For a time he hid in a $300-per-month villa in Cuba. In the winter of 1934 he and crippled Harry Campbell shot their way out of a police trap in an Atlantic City hotel, leaving Karpis' pregnant woman and another girl behind. Seven months later he threatened the life of the Bureau of Investigation's Director John Edgar Hoover in a letter mailed from Dayton, Ohio. Last August he spent three days at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. watching...
...curtain. Fortress-girt Verdun, innermost circle of the Western Front's hell; where in 1916 the French and Germans each lost 350,000 men; where, between February and July, 23 million shells punctuated the deadlocked argument; Douaumont, captured and recaptured but each time by an accident, the death trap where an explosion wiped out a whole battalion and the corpses were bricked in where they lay. The Crown Prince, dressed in tennis flannels, a racket under his arm, cheering on the troops marching up to the front line; his aide tossing packets of cigarets from a speeding...
...factory, appropriately called "The Mense Trap" was a complete prison for the men employed. Anyone who was allowed to enter remained for the duration of the war. When the factory was first opened, there was no kitchen and the entire staff was marched to eat at a hotel commandeered by the government and then marched back again...