Word: traps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trap. Wall Streeters made up new jokes last week when the New York Curb announced admittance to unlisted trading privileges of the 75,000 shares of Animal Trap Co. of America, Inc. The company carries on a business started in 1896, manufactures "traps for ensnaring rodents and fur bearing animals." Its office is in Lititz, Pa. Depression has not passed it by, for in 1928 Animal Trap Co. sold $1,475,000 worth of traps, made $284,000; last year its sales were $777,000, its net, $81,000. The first sales were at $14½ and "Trap" gave little...
...that he had recom- mended Ayer's son Gresham for a rural carriership, that he had received $800 from another source and procured the postmanship at Dale for S. Grant Johnson. But he insisted these receipts were not bribes. The Government prosecutor produced pin-pricked $100 bills used to trap Rowbottom. When after two hours' deliberation the jury found him guilty on four counts, Elizabeth Margaret Rohsenberger Rowbottom, his wife, fainted dead away...
...dinner card games. Old ball players play black jack, hearts, pinochle; younger ones play contract bridge. In the morning, they all play golf. In the afternoon, scrutinized by a few urchins too young to caddy and a few townsfolk too old to pitch horseshoes, they hit fungoes, chase flies, trap grounders, play pepper games (players stand in a small circle, toss baseballs quickly back and forth). After two or three weeks of this, exhibition games start and the teams move north with...
...crime to his father (Lionel Atwill). A swift chain of circumstance compels Mr. Atwill to assume the role of defendant. During his trial, which is accompanied by some adroit British sarcasm from the bench, he begins to crack. Harried by the King's Counsel, who patiently sets his trap and then springs it with heroic crescendo, Actor Atwill breaks down, screams: "I did it! I did it! I did it!" This part of the play is done so well that spectators almost forget that Mr. Atwill still has three scenes left in which to prove himself innocent. Kay Strozzi (real...
...carried messages for convicts and, knowingly or not, had been instrumental in a jail delivery plot." Chaplain Whitmeyer resigned three days after the thwarted escape. Said he: "I resigned because I was the man who disclosed the plans for the attempted prison escape, only to have the guards deliberately trap and shoot these three men after they had been allowed to climb down the outer wall. It was such brutality that aroused the other prisoners and led to the demonstration...