Word: bag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everglades as the U.S.'s 28th (and eleventh largest) national park. At the tiny (pop. 600) fishing town of Everglades City, he was welcomed by an enthusiastic, pushing crowd of 4,500. A group of Seminole Indians presented him with a rainbow-colored shirt, and a buckskin bag to take to Bess. He stopped to chat with some sponge fishermen, got two sponges as souvenirs...
...Over redcaps' protests, eastern railway stations upped the fee for each bag from 10? to 15?. The redcaps figured that the higher the fee (all of which goes to the terminal), the smaller...
With two rounds to go, Jersey Joe's handlers told him he had the fight (and the world's heavyweight championship) in the bag. Under orders to stay away from Louis, Jersey Joe began playing hare & hound. When the fight ended, Joe Louis, instead of staying in his corner, ducked through the ropes. (He explained later: "I fought so lousy that I was embarrassed and just wanted to get out of sight.") His handlers pulled him back to wait for the decision...
...squad honored their three coaches and their captain with gifts. Chief Boston received a leather travelling, bag, while backfield coach Clee O'Donnell, '46 varsity captain, line coach Eddle Davis, tackle on the '46 varsity team, and '47 J.V. captain Ozzie Keiver received silver eigarette lighters...
Arthur W. Coolidge, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusotts, condemned the Democratic Party as "a rag-bag of splinter groups, most of its members with either a greed or a gripe" in an address to the Harvard Young Republican Club in Emerson D last night...