Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...west of Duluth, to entertain his friends (among his guests have been Vice President Charles Curtis & son). But they came in such droves that he made it into a resort-Breezy Point-now one of the most elaborate showplaces in Minnesota-A crack marksman (manager of victorious U. S. trap-shooters in the 1924 Olympic Games), he keeps at Pelican Lake his countless trophies and his guns, among them a $2,000 elephant gun. Also he maintains there a zoo. In his editors, Publisher Fawcett insists upon what he calls "the divine spark." If one must be discharged...
...Switzerland has worked wonders with Tycoon McGarrah. When he reluctantly resigned as board chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to go abroad and try to make the Young Plan work, no clam was closer, no Scotsman more cautious, dour. There was danger then lest reporters trap Mr. McGarrah into what could be construed as an admission that the B. I. S. might become "The World Bank," the omnivorous big brother, the dread competitor of the central banks of the world's nations. One short year ago publicists for the B. I. S. were successfully emplanting...
...tariff wall around the Empire, one effect of which would have been that the Mother Country would have saved the Canadian situation by buying most of Canada's wheat. Devoutly may U. S. farmers give thanks that Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden set his little steel-trap jaw against this proposal, forced Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to kill it. It was contrary to Mr. Snowden's faith in free trade, a faith which he holds with fierce, fanatical tenacity. It would have been a staggering blow to the already groggy U. S. Grain Stabilization Corp...
Near Jamestown, N. Y., Tearle H. George, fireman, caught a muskrat in a trap, prodded it with the butt of his shotgun, was shot in the abdomen...
...changes in the body as has been theorized; 2) colds are not directly caused by micrococcus coryza described by Dr. John Arthur Franklin Pfeiffer of Baltimore (TIME, June 23), or by any other visible germ; 3) colds are apparently caused by a virus, which the finest of filters cannot trap and whose source has not yet been ascertained...