Word: traps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guest House" in which visiting Chinese donors and prospective donors will be sumptuously entertained. In style it is an Imperial Palace of Old China. Its spacious gardens spread over nine mow (1½ acres). Pompously the small, shrill-voiced, wasp-waisted President inaugurated this gilded trap for contributions. Then, briskly he set out on his long promised military campaign to crush bandits & rebels (TIME, June...
...experience for him when Leandro Arpinati. Under Secretary of the Interior, and Boss of Bologna, requested that before the Bologna concert last month he perform the Fascist tune and the ''Marcia Reale" (royal march of the house of Savoy). Though Conductor Toscanini suspected no trap, he stoutly refused. Boss Arpinati suggested that the Bologna town band be permitted to play the pieces. "Impossible !" cried the maestro. It was an evening in memory of his dead friend. "That would be a masquerade, not a concert...
...week. At the end of 18 holes, Martin-Smith sent a telegram to the captain of the Cambridge golf team saying he was two up. At the 22nd he was four up, but De Forest squared the match at the 34th. On the 35th his ball went into a trap, he took six to Martin-Smith's five. Both played their second shots short on the last hole, halved it in fives. Golfer De Forest was consoled for losing by $13,750 in bonuses from his proud father...
...year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing the saxophone, their ladies drinking cocktails through straws at a bar. Scenes of "Al Capone at Home," showing the gangster's "Louis Quinze" boudoir through an enormous circular bank-vault door; an unwary visitor plunging through a trap door as Capone, sitting at a richly carved desk, presses a pushbutton; Capone's "daughter" stepping into her armored limousine big as a moving van. A similar but not so expert array of faked pictures was published April 1 by the Chicago Daily News Midweek. These pictures showed bathing...
...aphrodisiac Arabian tales, these sketches are almost feminist documents. Author Celarie tells only what Moroccan women told her about their shut-in lives. Batoul's husband wanted to divorce her, nagged her to admit she had a lover till in desperation she fell into the trap. His concealed lawyer-witnesses made the divorce. Batoul was sent away; when her son was born he was taken from her; she never...