Word: trappings
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...Tender Trap. In Reno, lacking 50? of the $10 he needed to bail out his wife, who was jailed on a drunkenness charge, Marvin Wheeler light-fingered some brass plumbing fixtures from the police station, sold them to get the half dollar and freed his wife, was jailed himself for petty theft, was still locked up three days later when his wife was jugged again for drunkenness...
...city authorities and the garbage men (who have no respect for a well-conducted dump), but a film company run by a madly implausible American operator named Claygate Corst. Though Corst doesn't have "enough do-re-mi in his pocket to acquire a second-hand mouse-trap," he takes over the decayed movie studios next to the dump. At this point the whimsicality that infects British writers when they deal with cockneys unfortunately takes over the novel. Old Cock arrays himself in a junkpile suit of armor and routs the rozzers, crying in his version of Shakespeare: "Here...
...Life You Save ... In Rochester, after Kenneth Butters complained about fast driving along Woodbine Avenue, police set up a radar trap and nabbed five speeders, including Butters...
...issued an "Urgent Message" to all delegates: "Keep your mind on the TV camera, because the TV camera may be on you." Apparently Stage Manager Murphy told everybody everything except what to say. Commented Murphy: "Someday I'm going to run a convention the right way, with a trap door right under the speakers...
...Booby Trap. That afternoon, Childe Harold's anti-Nixon campaign blew up right in his face. He had walked into his own political booby trap. Long before Stassen brought his dump-Nixon move into the open, Nixon and Chairman Len Hall had learned what was up. Nixon himself called Herter to ask that Herter place Nixon in nomination at the Republican convention. Herter did not give an immediate answer. But after Stassen's first public statement. Herter was again asked to nominate Nixon. This time he agreed. In an instant Stassen became a manager without a candidate...