Word: traps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Strongs, Mich., one Dr. John F. Deadman, veterinarian, talked softly and whistled to a full-grown timber wolf caught in a trap, calmed it, released it, in three days had it so tame he could stroke it, feed it, lift its lips back, baring the fangs...
Tosca will open the Metropolitan's season in Philadelphia Nov. 2, with Maria Jeritza, a blonde, exuberant Tosca, to race the gauntlet of operatic emotions. Jealous first, then playful, loving completely Mario Cavaradossi, she brings him thus unwillingly into a political trap laid by Chief of Police Antonio Scotti, sleekest of nil Searpias, who wants the lady for himself. The second act will come with his melodramatic crescendoes. Tosca will surrender and Scarpia will supposedly draw up his pardon while Tosca's hand, fumbling, despairing, will find the carving knife on a supper table. She will stab him, steal away...
...last week he was rushed around Manhattan. Men with papers and pencils in their hands kept pointing things out to him and waiting to see the mist of wonder rise in his face. They made him go through a door with four sides that spun round like a trap and, of course, he got stuck in it-that was what they seemed to expect of him. They asked him what he thought of the women he saw. "They have naked necks," he said. He grew a little tired of taxicabs and tuxedos, of nightclubs and subways and electric lights...
When Death came to Felix Dzerzhinsky he was in the midst of a campaign to reorganize and educate industrially the whole body of Soviet workers (TIME, July 19). Perhaps only he possessed the granite will and the steel-trap tenacity requisite for. this titan's task. Than his death, no heavier loss to economic Russia can be imagined...
...beat Takeiichi Harada, seeded Japanese, and got into the finals. His match against Champion Tilden was not exciting. The report had gotten about the clubhouse that the champion was planning to make a four-set match of it and to run the Texan ragged with drives to the corners, trap shots, and every variation of pace and length, to tire him against the doubles later in the day. Mr. White had evidently made up his mind not to be a sacrifice. He never ran after his opponent's placements, but did what he could with the shots that came...