Word: traps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself up, Socialist Boss Léon Blum burst into an oration designed to show up Premier Laval as at heart a blackshirt despite his lifelong affectation of pure white ties & shirts. Thundered scrawny, droop-mustached Boss Blum at the Radical Socialists: "Are you going to fall into the trap which is being laid for you? Are you going to quail before the double pressure of street riots and bank panics? "What has the Government done to assure the defense of our liberties?" roared M. Blum. "There is an open and public conspiracy against our republican institutions! What...
...Sidney, naïve proprietress of a roadside restaurant, falls in love with a winning stranger (Alan Baxter) only to learn, when he begins discharging firearms, that he is Public Enemy No. A1. She is accused of aiding his escape, bullied into a false confession, sent to prison. To trap Baxter the G-men rig up an elaborate escape for Miss Sidney, shadow her every move. The infatuated public enemy manages to harass her while eluding his pursuers and robbing a football stadium, almost ruins her romance with Melvyn Douglas before he is shot. For cinemaddicts who are not ruffled...
...Roseau, Minn., Leon Plant, 65, indignantly refusing State and Federal relief, retired to keep house in a big, snug butter churn with a tight-fitting trap door (see cut), which he inherited four years ago from a former employer...
...Binnie Barnes), defends himself from Joel's well-meaning but blundering attentions which include putting sleeping tablets in his coffee, buying him a heavy bullet-proof vest. Her indignant belief that his attentions to the female spy are nothing but a wanton flirtation finally lands them in a trap where the dapper lieutenant saves Joel from gunfire by knocking her down with a blow on the jaw, almost precisely as Powell did to Myrna Loy in The Thin...
...this vision of loveliness. What was she doing here? Was she a part of the diabolical plot against Drummond or had she too been caught in this hideous trap? What was this mysterious engine of death? My heart stood still!" Next week, "East Lynn...