Word: traps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite pastime of Steamship Magnate Bruce Vail (Colin Clive) is tormenting his wife (Jean Arthur). When she threatens to put an end to his diversion by divorce, he sends his chauffeur (Ivan Lebedeff) to her rooms, plans to trap her in the servant's arms, nullifying the divorce under the English statute that the complainant in such a suit must remain blameless during the six months between the provisional and final decrees. In the next room Paul Dumond (Charles Boyer) hears the fracas, ends it by knocking out the chauffeur. When the obsessed husband and his witness enter, Dumond...
...hard-headed, sensible people as I can see, and not to be taken in by emotional clap-trap. I therefore ask you to consider soberly: what were the Archbishop's aims? and what are King Henry's aims? In the answer to these questions lies the key to the problem...
...rival. Heading the half-page layout: "HERE IS A STUDY IN PICTORIAL JOURNALISM PRACTICE FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK,'"* the Times crowed: "All of this shows how a Times photograph was copied by the Examiner - an astonishing procedure, but not an unusual one. . . . The Times retouchers set a trap and caught - we might say, a copy...
...stirps" took the cream. Work was planned collectively, law & order in the same way. Noting the failure of similar groups throughout the country, to make ends meet by straight farming, Noyes and his shrewd, God-fearing colleagues turned to canning fruits and vegetables, manufactured the world-famed Newhouse steel trap, made silk, plated silverware, did a big tourist trade in vegetable dinners...
...happy time, clouded only with infrequent "criticisms." Meals were tasty and generous, the Bible was made a friendly, interesting book; the spacious brick Mansion House, the workshops and farm were rich exploring grounds, the grown-ups gave Gilbert & Sullivan operas, the children felt important doing part-time work making trap chains. It was not until he was 6 or 7 that he got a taste of Outside opinion from town boys who called them "Christ boys'' and "bastards." In the next few years the Outside closed in savagely. Stirpiculture seemed to the Community's neighbors no better...