Word: bag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cocktail party, Mrs. Pollock called her husband to tell him the great news. But Salesman Marion S. Pollock was in an ornery mood. With great abruptness, he told his wife to get her winning combination home "and stop showing it off in Jackson." Weeping openly, Mrs. Pollock packed her bag and took a plane for Columbus...
...suffer from the inflationary boost given the country's economy by such action. All too many veterans are attempting to justify their requests for more money by the shallow assertion that now that the country has "had enough" and seems about to return to unfettered laissez-faireism, the grab bag is open, and it is every man for himself. But this is still one nation, and an intelligent, progressive program for the future can be carried through only if all groups work for the greatest good of the greatest number, even in the face of imaginary or actual temporary hardship...
...disheveled blonde with a set lip and calloused hands, and she was thumbing a ride in New Jersey's Palisades Park. Through his windshield, Patrolman Leonard Cottrell saw her soiled shirt, the dirty dungarees rolled to her knees, the cheap zipper bag she carried. He pulled to the curb...
Actual details of his Odyssey were completely blacked out by the amnesia. But a Railway Express Agency receipt for his large sea bag dated October 28, from Jacksonville, a registration slip from a Philadelphia lodging house on October 30, and a job application to the Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole marked what he thought were the limits north and south. Thus the Montreal resident who reported him there on October 29 was clearly mistaken...
...bag recovered in his Orleans hotel room, which accompanied him during the war years on Pacific duty with the U. S. Navy, contained several changes if clothing, including bits of formal attire, that proved effective in helping him elide police detection. West smiled as he noted a single black dancing pump included in the inventory...