Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popularity of the Dry Martini places it without any doubt in the minds of the majority as the "World's Finest." Let the drinker beware of the European barman-he likes to skimp on his liquors and trust to melted ice to fill the glasses: tell him "pas trap glacé" (not too much ice) or, jocularly, "pas trap mouillé" (not too wet). GRAFTON D. DORSEY
...Blood oozed; Joe Aiello crumpled down with 57 holes and more than a pound of lead in him. Death had spat from two rented rooms, cunningly chosen for a crossfire. Hundreds of cigaret-butts in each room testified that the gunners had waited long for their prey. Because the trap resembled one which slew Earl ("Hymie") Weiss, another North Side Big Shot, and because that trap was credited to Capone, police announced Aiello's slayers were Caponemen...
...ankled up a secret altar Satdee and then parted? . . . And that the late Andrew Carnegie's nevview Harry Sproul Jr. of the Racquet & Tennis Club, was welded in the shhh! manner to Annette Boudreau of Ottawa on May 16th? . . . A certain husband is marking time so he can trap his sqaw and her well-known pash in a public place and then disgrace them out loud...
...students. The former, acting as police, were ever on the watch to catch their pupils in the midst of their misdemeanors. Each instructor was assigned to guard a certain section of the town. Many of the "cops" even went so far as to disguise themselves in an attempt to trap unwary students. This method, proving unpopular as well as ineffective, was discarded in favor of a somewhat primitive "honor system", accompanied by a process known as "reading the catalogue". This meant going through the list of students at faculty meetings to see if anybody had "something on" each student...
...meets Gordon sometimes, goes to an occasional party. But the dénouement is not far off. Pelter's enemy Corning discovers Pelter's secret, that all Mirthful Haven but no summer visitor knows. He tips off the revenue cutter. That night Pelter is led into a trap, tries to escape, is shot. Then everything comes out. Mrs. Corning rescues her son in the nick of time from his fishing-village demimondaine; he allows himself to be rescued, leaves without even saying goodbye. Instead, he sends his brother to make family apologies for her father's death...