Word: bag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile three others of the five carousers had held up the cashier and swept $10,000 into a little black bag. They started to flee through the now deserted mezzanine. "Texas," however, stopped to call on the house detective. The detective stuck a revolver out of his office door and fired, hitting the Cherokee in the shoulder. Then Texas joined the others in flight. His falling blood incarnadined the marble steps as he ran down. The other cowboy lost his way, ran into the kitchen and, after a little miscellaneous gunplay, was knocked on the head...
Among threats Dr. Thom doubtless had in mind: "Be good or the doctor will cut your tongue out." "The old man with a black bag picks up little girls who don't mind their mothers...
These were things easily foreseen from the fact that the Riverside property had been conveyed last week to the Empire Mortgage Co., a Rockefeller bag...
...elbow: he began to address its black aperture. "Yes," he said, "this is Gershwin. . . . No, no, it's too hot. ... . I'm going away for the weekend. ... I can't see anyone" Smiling, he hung up the receiver, tossed a last striped shirt into his bag. It was sometimes a nuisance, but he could not honestly pretend that it bored him, this growing public interest in his movements, his past, his plans...
Thousand Guineas. Down the spacious, windy fairways of Gleneagles, Scotland, perhaps the grandest golf course in the world, professionals from far and wide beat their balls as they qualified to play for the annual bag of a thousand guineas ($5,000). Vivacious Aubrey Boomer of St. Cloud, France, led them all with a record 69, until swart Abe Mitchell passed him with a pair of 70's for the two rounds. Joe Kirkwood, sole U. S. entrant, was lucky to qualify with 153, the first 80 strokes of which were somewhat impeded by a family of ducks that paraded...