Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urban Virgil used roundly to invoke the muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From every corner they come...
...This treaty leaves us holding the bag in future European squabbles; and that is the one and only reason why Europe wants...
...board of governors of The Apparel Mart Association are: Alfred Decker, of Alfred Decker & Cohn, wholesale clothiers; F. G. Peabody of Cluett-Peabody & Co. (collars); I. L. Marienthal, of the Modern Belt Co.; 0. Koerner, of Hansen Gloves; B. J. Shnur, of P. Becker & Co., trunk and bag makers. The head of Apparel-Manufacturers' Mart Building Corporation is Napoleon Picard, who organized the Insurance Exchange, in Chicago. Architect Ahlschlager is vice president; A. R. Clas is secretary and treasurer...
...Italia crashes on ice north of Spitsbergen, killing Motorist Vincenzo Pommella, separating Polar Pilgrims into two groups. Eight, led by Gen. Nobile, are left stranded with the wreckage of the cabin. Seven are blown away with the dirigible's bag...
Piloting the bag which reached North Carolina was Frenchman Charles Dollfus. But the airline distance from Detroit to Walnut Cove, N. C., is only 447.9 miles, 11.5 miles less than the distance from Detroit to Chase City, Va., where German Hugo Kaulen ended his trip, 13 miles less than the distance to Kenbridge, Va., where Capt. Edmund W. E. Kepner of the U. S. Army landed his bubble. Capt. Kepner was unofficially adjudged, last week, to have brought the U. S. its third consecutive victory in the James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race, assuring permanent possession of the trophy...