Word: bag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aged woman, who had been weaving through the crowd from sidewalk to curb in a futile effort to keep her ill-shod feet dry, suddenly sighted the twelve men. She stopped in her tracks, stared wide-eyed at them for a full minute. Then she dropped her threadbare market bag, flew across the street in front of a lumbering, charcoal-burning truck and threw herself with a gasping cry upon the third prisoner. Prisoners and passers-by paused and gaped dumbly at the two Rodinesque figures fingering the backs of each other's rough coats and mumbling hysterically: "Wohin...
...such theatrics are now only for Señorita Bombal's bag of situations, to be woven into her quaint, syrupy prose. For three years she has been married to distinguished, white-haired French Broker Fal de Saint Phalle. With daughter Brigette, 2, they live happily in Manhattan...
...following year Sayão wheedled the Government into shipping an abandoned sugar mill from the coast, set it up in Ceres, and distilled enough alcohol from the colony's sugar to keep the trucks on the road to Anapolis. So in 1946 the colony marketed 160,000 bags of rice in Sao Paulo at prices ranging from $3 to $4.50 a bag...
...Flea-Bag Years. When the library staff put on a show, Fred was ready. He had rounded up all his jokes and jugglery into an act. "I was a smash," Fred recalls. "They all told me I ought to be on the stage. The bastards. I believed them." At 17, he broke into Sam Cohen's Amateur Night circuit-50? a night. One night a noisy M.C. heckled him: "Where did you learn to juggle?" Allen tried his first onstage ad lib: "I took a correspondence course in baggage-smashing." Soon he got a chance to fill...
...dizzy spells. Diagnosis: hypertension. He got orders to quit radio. While he was resting, he took his third trip to the other side of the moon (Hollywood), made the third of his four pictures (Thanks a Million, Sally, Irene and Mary, Love Thy Neighbor, It's in the Bag), and a few observations: "California is a wonderful place to live-if you're an orange"; "Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars"; "An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer...