Word: traps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evans Hughes of New York. The first was a prayerful appeal to U. S. womanhood. The second was an awesome exegesis of the Coolidge message. The third was a smashing summary designed to picture Republicans on a peak of noble humanitarianism, the Democrats in a morass of "clamor," "clap trap" and "calumny" engaged in a "shindig...
Campaigner Hughes next went to Chicago. There he defended Republican progressiveness, prosperity, economy. He called some of the Smith speeches "clap-trap," "amazing...
...great room that all heard distinctly the click of the spring latch on Signor Mussolini's door as it was opened by his private secretary. Though the fellow smiled reassuringly, even obsequiously, many an editor had the feeling that he and his newspaper were being bowed into a trap if not onto a gallows. As they filed into the sanctum, each sheepishly saluted the lionesque Dictator, who stood at immobile salute behind his great carved desk...
...things in the water are magnified 100 times, or cubically a million times. What is silky green scum in ponds of spirogyra, is reproduced as great, slender stems with tubular strands. Water thyme has slender pointed leaves and graceful translucent green stems. Bladderwort carries little traps at the ends of stems. Really they are the size of pin heads. Enlarged they are three to four inches in diameter. When an animalcule touches the bladder (utricle) a flap snaps upwards; the beastie slips into the pouch; the trap springs shut...
...William James and Charles Horace Mayo, surgeons, dedicated their newest "mouse trap," a 19 story clinic building at Rochester, Minn., with a great ringing of a twenty-bell carillon hung in the tower. Their father, Dr. William Worrell Mayo, had settled in Rochester 65 years ago. When his sons hesitated in opening practice at the isolated small town, he persuaded them with Emerson's: "If you build a better mousetrap than your neighbor...