Word: traps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week one Edward Boop, laborer, trapped a 29-lb. beaver. What made the catch newsworthy was the fact that it occurred not in Canada or the U. S. northwest, but near Glen Iron in Pennsylvania. For the first time in 31 years Pennsylvanians were free to trap beavers, from March 1. to April...
...more place [in the code] than would the recitation of the whole Constitution or the Ten Commandments. . . . The freedom guaranteed by the Constitution is a freedom of expression and that will be scrupulously respected-but it is not freedom to work children, or do business in a fire trap or violate the laws against obscenity, libel and lewdness...
Many a paper took columns to say what Publisher Leonard Kimball Nicholson of the New Orleans Times Picayune put into 35 words: "Inasmuch as we do not 'work children, or do business in a fire trap, or violate the laws against obscenity, libel and lewdness,' there is no comment we can make on the President's action...
...mystery drama at the Plymouth this week is singularly lacking in all the conventional trappings; no gorillas carrying swooning, half-naked females shamble across the stage; not once does a mysterious hand stretch out from the secret panel and grasp its unsuspecting victim; the lights are never suddenly doused and there are no trap doors, hidden staircases, or ghostly signals...
...brokerage house of Weicker & Co. announced it would take a new partner on Jan. 2: Francis Warren Pershing, 24, only son of General John, J. Pershing. His qualifications: a degree from Sheffield Scientific School, 1931 (voted "most likely to succeed"); a year spent selling crushed stone for New York Trap Rock Corp.; several months "connected" with Weicker & Co.; a third share in the $819,000 estate of his late famed grandsire, the venerable Senator Francis Warren of Wyoming...