Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Edward Laurence Doheny Jr., 36, of Los Angeles, carrier of the famed "little black bag" from his father to one-time Secretary of the Interior Fall during the Elk Hills phase of the conniving that caused the oil scandals; when shot by his insane secretary, who afterward killed himself; in Los Angeles...
...Well, nobody knows. I was a foundling, discovered in a Boston bag at the Touraine check room, a sort of lost-and-foundling...
...retells starkly in music and text the apochryphal legend of the Hebrew prophetess saving her people against the warring Assyrians. Mary Garden it was who prayed simply as Judith and then sought Holofernes alone in his tent, hacked off his head with a great sword, tucked it in a bag and carried it to her people. Baritone Césare Formichi as Holofernes was the vocal and dramatic mainstay of the performance...
...debt at once, leaving the new private debt to be paid off in the course of years. Thus a lofty obligation would be "commercialized" into a vulgar loan. The advantage to the Governments concerned would be that, if Germany should default, mere private citizens would be left holding the bag...
When told that a prominent symphony orchestra conductor considered his band nothing but "a bag of tricks", Mr. Whiteman replied. "Well, tricks are all right too, if they're well done, ask Peggy Joyce...