Word: bag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California people are still the finest in the world. It was Othello who remarked that "he that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all". Unfortunately the restless Westerner could not keep his cat in the bag and the East must recommence its yearning for the glory that is California...
...group of Camp Fire Girls presented Mrs. Coolidge with a bag of cookies, five feet long, baked by themselves. Mrs. Coolidge ate two, said that they were very good and that she would send some to her boys at Mercersburg Academy...
Following this indoor work, teams A and B lined up for 20 minutes on the baseball field and practiced punting and defences against long forward passes such as Holy Cross is rumored to have in its bag...
...case of "The Bat", everyone who has seen "The Cat and the Canary" has to conspire to keep the cat in the bag, so the action must remain an impenetrable secret, so far as the Playgoer is concerned. But its effectiveness, judged by that reliable criterion, its reception by the audience, deserves no little admiration. By means of thoroughly adequate scenery and "props", and the services of the old West Indian, "Mammy" Pleasant, an extremely advantageous current of excitement and hysteria is set up, which needs only the slamming of a door or the tolling of a bell to produce...
...light Rhode Island State eleven with scarcely an enviable record behind it yet perhaps with a trick or two in its bag, will tackle the University team in the Stadium this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the season's opener for the Crimson. The visitors started their 1923 season rather unauspiciously two weeks ago when they lost to Maine 14 to 0. But since that time they have pointed their work toward today's game and will show an improved attack with several surprise plays in all probability...