Word: bag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening session. The big clock over the Speaker's chair in the House of Commons was a few ticks short of 9:30. The Government's most extensive socialist measure yet-nationalization of almost all of Britain's privately owned inland transport-was in the bag, and everybody knew...
...each item of good news, Liberals slapped their desks and Mackenzie King beamed more broadly. But Abbott, like Santa Claus pointing to a bag stuffed with presents, kept his audience waiting for long minutes before he loosened the drawstrings and displayed his prize package: a new schedule of income-tax rates under which "the average amount of tax will be reduced by about 29%. . . . The reduction . . . is as much as 54% in the bottom bracket, but is limited to about 6% or 7% in the top brackets." Half of the relief will apply on 1947 incomes, since reductions go into...
...golfera' first really "fair-weather" match so far, and the long-awaited absence of rain and cold resulted in lowered Varsity scores. Tyke Wilcox, number one man, pulled a 76 out of the bag to win his fourth individual match in five starts--he lost only to the Maine Amateur Champ--and no one tallied over...
With the first win of the young season almost in the bag as a result of four straight-set singles victories, rains came to wash out the last half of the Varsity tennis team's match with Bowdoin on the Business School courts yesterday afternoon. Two remaining singles duels were halted with the score knotted at a set apiece, and none of the three doubles matches had yet begun when proceedings were halted...
...joke is on them. Last week a surrealist one-man show in Manhattan gave onlookers the pleasure of being in on the laughs. The paintings, by a dour little Belgian named René Magritte, have Salvador Dali's technical perfection but none of Dali's tiresome bag of Freudian tricks. Sample Magritte subjects: a fountain-as cool and wet-looking as the real thing-which spouts crystal mirrors, crowns, hands and cornucopias; a cigar box puffing a cigar; a door, set up against the sky, opening to admit a cloud; a glassy-eyed nude crammed into a bottle...