Word: bag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last October, a blond boy on a bicycle left Hollywood, pumping hard, and headed east for Flagstaff, Ariz. Just as the sun rose on the day after Thanksgiving, he dropped his bicycle on his grandmother's frosty lawn in Monroe, N. Y., curled up in a sleeping bag and went to sleep. He felt good, not only because he had covered 3,268 miles on $31 and had averaged 78 strenuous miles a day, but because on his way he had painted about 40 water colors. Last week 25 of them, exhibited at the Manhattan galleries of Charles...
...comparison with his former wife's volume, 50-year-old Baron von Blixen-Finecke's African Hunter is little more than a handbook for big-game hunters. A professional guide to millionaire sportsmen, he enumerates his choice kills, gives bag limits, cost ($2,000 per month per person), devotes his longest section to a hunting trip with the Prince of Wales-"perhaps the toughest sportsman of them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife...
...several weeks the same museum has shown a roomful of photographs of "Fallingwater," Frank Lloyd Wright's new house at Bear Run, Pa. (TIME, Jan. 17). Sealed in the masonry of this building is a burlap bag containing comments by well-known Pittsburgh architects on the plans, few of whom thought it could be built successfully. It was built so successfully that many a gallerygoer has been led to wonder how the New York World's Fair, like the Chicago Fair before it, has managed to ignore Architect Wright. Last week in the New Yorker Critic Lewis Mumford...
...Chase National Bank and $20,000,000 in Treasury notes given U. S. and Cuban contractors. Ephemeral Cuban Governments which followed Machado would have nothing to do with the debts of the "Tyrant." Late in 1933 payments were suspended. Since then U.S. investors have been hopefully holding the bag...
...southeast of Paris, and insisted on the payment of 200 francs ($6.40) of long overdue taxes. They slammed and locked the door in the impudent man's face. Back to town went the tax collector and returned with a locksmith. The locksmith had no sooner set down his bag of tools than a shot from a window wounded him severely...