Word: bag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...felicitous endings. As is customary, the villain is a rejected suitor of the heroine, while naturally, the hero is the accepted one. Filled with well-simulated hatred, the villain arranges a charming little scene, in which he murders his double and escapes, leaving the fainting hero to hold the bag, quite loaded down with incriminating evidence. However, after years of imprisonment the old dear is released upon the discovery by his faithful wife of the supposed victim masquerading, alive and hearty, behind a large black beard. Then comes the honest-to-goodness number and the fortunate technicality...
Universities in America are run on business lines. The President speedily becomes the traveling salesman of a body of business Trustees or (in the case of a State university) an expert lobbyist. His bag never unpacked, he is ready to dash into his sleeper to catch the next conference or alumni banquet. He is never in his own library or among his own students...
Fully inflated, ready in every detail, the enormous ZR-1 was slowly released from its cradle by the escape of 8 tons of water from its ballast tanks. Three hundred marines and sailors guided the immense bag across the shed at Lakehurst, N. J., and anchored it at the entrance. Exhaustive engine tests will precede the trial flight on Sept. 1, a momentous date for American aviation...
...York Evening Journal (Hearst) printed pictures of Lord and Lady Lascelles (Princess Mary), of the Duke and Duchess of York, of Lady Louise Mountbatten and her recent fiance, Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, and of King George and Cupid. Over each lady's heart appeared a money bag and from cupid's bow issued arrows piercing to each money bag. The story accompanying these pictures was written by Margery Rex (the name of any young lady whom Mr. Hearst may employ to write this type of story). The narrative told how Lady Louise Mountbatten had jilted the Crown...
...James Gordon Bennett, the elder, fought for the rights of the people throughout the 37 years of his control of The New York Herald. . . . Ultimately the Herald found its way into the newspaper grab-bag of Frank Munsey, until today it is nothing more than a mouthpiece of the interests, with the only notice taken of the people being contained in the obituary column. "When Joseph Pulitzer founded The New York World he made of that daily a people's newspaper . . . The New York World today only carries the principles of Joseph Pulitzer at the head of the editorial...