Word: bag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than one robust undergrad has weathered a stay at Conway or Stowe tossing in a sleeping bag in the back of a truck with nothing for sustinence but the will to live and a case of Three Feathers. By this method a student can spend a holiday in the snow for less than half the price of the cheapest lodging...
...individual performances, Hope's is far and away the standout. He blows bubbles through a cornet. He even gets the mouthpiece stuck on his lips, which is certainly a new one from his bag of tricks. And when he pulls off a crack about Congressmen with all the finesse of a dinosaur laying an egg, he is really tops...
...outlawed the Communist Party and the leftist EAM, and even "sympathizers" were threatened with severe penalties. In Athens some 500 Communists were already under arrest as a result of an episode three weeks ago when a policeman saw three men get out of a taxi carrying a suspicious cloth bag. When he tried to question them, they shot him dead, then fled through the ruins at the base of the Acropolis. (The cloth bag, it turned out, contained arms.) One of the three, a Communist hatchetman named Stamatis Bitsikas, was caught, broke down under interrogation and confessed a Red plot...
Rallying to the rescue of shopping-silly Radcliffe and Wellesley maidens of fifty years ago. The Ladies' Home Journal of December, 1897, suggested that they buy or make for their men friends 'crocheted lamp shades, a sponge bag, or a crimson flannel banjo case...
...news rarely makes the front pages-unless it is such musicomedy stuff as the "Hollywood hearings." In general, the U.S. is covered by such grab-bag gossips as Don Iddon (in the Mail) and C. V. R. Thompson (in the Express). Without such serious correspondents as Sir Willmott Lewis of the Times and Alistair Cooke, the Manchester Guardian's man at U.N., and the shrewd jotters of the "American Survey" in Geoffrey Crowther's Economist, an American in London would feel hopelessly cut off from home...