"Frame-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the United States. Consider the rifle found under the floor of the hut; and, having weighed all these points judicially, Wessex, tell me frankly, if in the whole course of your experience, you have ever met with a more perfect frame-up?" ...
— Bat Wing • Sax Rohmer
... "Frame-up" means taking boards the proper length with broad tape tacked along one edge. First you pin the goods lengthwise, pins close together. Then you find side boards the desired length and pin the goods along the sides. Then ...
— Working With the Working Woman • Cornelia Stratton Parker
... dishonesty of the race, for horsemen believe that "there never was an honest horse-race," and the followers of the prize ring are constantly suspicious that the fight will be "fixed." The first question they ask after the decision of the referee is generally, "Was it a frame-up?" The moral power of baseball, tennis, football and the other most popular sports, is in the confidence that the game is fairly played. This fairness of the game is the widest extended school of ethical culture that the American and British population know. Honorable recreation trains in courage, ...
— The Evolution of the Country Community - A Study in Religious Sociology • Warren H. Wilson
... taunted. "It's a frame-up. You sent the deputy after me—pointed me out when I went into Hanrahan's! That's how he knew me! You knew I'd come in here to have it out with you, and you figured to have Braman shoot me when my back was turned! Ha, ha!" He swung his pistol on Corrigan; the big man gripped ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
... invention known as the 'frame-up' would easily make America too small for the Lone Wolf without the British Secret Service ever being mentioned in ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph |
