Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 2,000,000 men on the dole, with steel-trap Chancellor Philip Snowden set to catch every extravagance at the exchequer, thoughtful Britons learned last week that it costs $3.20 per mi. to run the Royal Train-empty...
...returns to his home, vengeance-bent. As he enters he overhears his spouse retailing to Sheridan how she saved her husband from his enemies' submachine guns. Remorse stings him and with an amazing lack of logic for such a hard man he walks from his home into the trap he has laid for Sheridan...
...little shaver his mother died and soon afterward his father was gored to death by a steer. Orphan Will was taken over by a friend of his father, a Frenchman named Beaupré. From "Bopy" the boy learned all about how to live in the open: to hunt, trap, ride, cook. One morning, when Will was a boy in his 'teens, he woke to find the camp fire almost out, and no Bopy in sight. They were camped near a river, and in the river the boy found their battered bucket still kept afloat by the ice. That was the only...
...Jones started by sinking a ten-foot putt on the first green, played par golf to the fourth where he took the first of six birdies. His gallery, stirred to an intent, incredulous tension, saw that he might have a 66 for the round, but he drove into a trap at the seventeenth and sliced his drive into a clump of trees on the home hole. These were his only mistakes in the greatest round that he or any man ever played in a U. S. Open. He did it with his mashie niblick, playing doubtful carries short and laying...
...with the village priest: if he will introduce her to some natives, she will give his parish some money. Natives introduced include a Spanish painter who constantly kisses Actress Boland's hand; an English poetess and her Slavic, piano-playing paramour. After the painter compromises Actress Boland, a trap-drummer from Champaign, Ill., woos and wins Daughter; and after Citizen Hubbard has become thoroughly sick of the whole business, the Hubbards head for the homeland. Actress Boland, struggling with French maids and telephones, plagued by a Coca-Cola-guzzling husband, turns in a businesslike, applausible performance. Lost Sheep...