Word: bag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manners. In Mobile, Lurline M. Kohler woke to find a stranger rummaging through her handbag, screamed, "Get out of my room!" to the would-be thief, who meekly murmured, "Yes, ma'am," put the bag down and beat...
...months, Scotland Yard's sleuths followed a shimmering trail of 1,600 butterflies that led from Australia to England. They were stolen from three Australian museums, and much of the thief's bag of exotic loot was irreplaceable. Among the missing butterflies were specimens rare beyond price-an Adaluma urumelia, silky white tinged with blue; an Ogyris zozine splendida, the only one of its black and metallic-blue type ever known to have been netted; several Diana Moonbeams, whose dull purple shading excites collectors just as a light excites a moth...
...lasted five minutes. The Tribune was good for fifteen more. Then he walked through the firedoor to the other end of the adjoining room, and then he walked back. Everybody was in the books, and finals were a few days away. He took out a laundry slip and the bag, but that was silly, if he was leaving the next day, so he put them away...
...knew as well as anyone that a slump is mostly mental. Every inning, when the Cards came off the field, he carefully put his first baseman's glove face down in the grass. Then he always touched the bag with his left foot. At breakfast, he made sure never to order the same thing he ate the morning before...
...accepted ways of the world. Published last week was a book about five religious thinkers called Modern Christian Revolutionaries (Devin-Adair; $4), edited by British Catholic Donald Attwater. First published piecemeal in England, this collection of studies by different authors is what Editor Attwater calls "a very mixed bag." Two of its subjects are Protestants, two Catholics and one is Russian Orthodox. Three are especially notable for general readers...