Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Costello: Congratulations. It went over perfect. When I tell you something is in the bag, you can rest assured...
...when two Chileans faulted. That left only four competitors for the trophy-all members of the Mexican team. One by one the three veteran riders started on the course, then pulled their horses up sharply for a refusal so that young Lieut. D'Harcourt would be sure to bag his first Garden trophy...
...there are firsts to everything, there was a first in line for the Yale tickets yesterday morning. Walter A. Hirschberg '48, took his sleeping bag to the HAA basement at 4:30 a.m. and waited for Mr. Lunden to open the doors...
...elected president of Rotary. But the boys had to get along without Ed at the Tuesday luncheons at the Claypool because he was off traveling. Ed's the kind of a fellow who, when he decides to go some place, throws some socks and shaving stuff into a bag and starts. Eighteen months ago he sold his business (chocolate-covered cherries) and decided to see some of the world, maybe combine traveling with a little business. Ed asked the Soviet embassy in Washington for a visa to Russia...
When the Reader's Digest (circ. 16,000,000) decided to run Columnist Billy Rose's autobiography, Wine, Women and Words, in some of its foreign editions, it ran smack against a language barrier. Who could manage to translate what Rose himself called "grab-bag grammar and tipsy tavernacular...