Word: waylaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Passing through the Metropolitan's narrow stage door Scotti managed a smile for photographers who waylaid him. He shook hands gravely with hulking Giulio Gatti-Casazza who had made his debut as manager of the Scala in Milan the night Scotti first sang there 34 years ago. Then he went upsteps to a dingy dressing-room, locked the door, took pictures of his long-dead father and mother from the little black bag and sat them down before a mirror. Slowly he smeared his face with yellow paint, donned a snakey-cued China-man's wig. For that...
...campaign train. I studied political science under Professor Moley at Columbia some eight years ago and thought him shrewd, honest, fearless. His work as head of the Cleveland crime commission (about 1923) brought him wide fame and the attention of a number of Cleveland thugs who waylaid him one night, fortunately without too serious results, because of his unwelcome interest in some of the more putrid corners of that great city. (No criticism of Cleveland-it does not differ from other places of comparable population in respect to the criminal element.) What Mr. Moley and his associates found was incorporated...
...mail subscriptions, with two exceptions. From Denver, Publisher Fred G. Bonfiis shipped bundles of his noisy Post into Butte. From Seattle came supplies of Hearst's Post-Intelligencer. A Butte Post office boy, en route from the post office with the day's load of "exchanges," was waylaid by news-starved passersby who offered him 50? a copy. He was incorruptible...
...anybody she had ever seen before, the women he brought home with him were so angelically bright, that the girl began to worship him. His doormat became sacred ground, his doorknob the shining star of love. Through thick & thin she pursued that star until, grown up, she at last waylaid him on the street, turned the blissful doorknob to her own account. Three nights they dallied, then R. went out of town. Slowly, reading the letter, he begins to realize that he was the father of her child. Lest she disturb him with the maintenance of herself and his child...
...Porra. Early one morning firing broke out in Havana itself. Havana householders and U. S. reporters stayed prudently in their beds. It was difficult to learn fust what had happened. Most reliable reports said that a group of revolutionary sympathizers had been waylaid by a gang of the "Porra" and shot. Only one body was found. The "Porra" ranks high among the various things for which Cubans curse Gerardo Machado. It is a band of criminals who have been pardoned, let out of jail and armed to help put down the revolution. Cubans spoke of the "Porra" last week...