Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cool and confident in his superior strength and wisdom one day last week, Henri Villette, a 67-year-old barrelmaker of Alencon, clapped an unwanted kitten into a musette bag and set out for the Sarthe River to drown it. On the river's bank he slipped and fell. The kitten crawled to safety. Henri's drowned body was found later by local firemen...
...night last week Garry Davis, self-appointed Citizen of the World, rolled up his sleeping bag and put on his scuffed leather flight jacket. Then he headed for Cherche-Midi military prison, on Paris' Left Bank. He told the prison concierge that as a gesture of protest against injustice, he wanted to be locked up with Jean Moreau, a young French conscientious objector whom the French police had recently jailed. The concierge was very sorry, but the director of the prison was not around; perhaps, if M. Davis came back the next morning, the director might accommodate...
Gingerly, the two archeologists lifted the turban off. Beneath it, stuffed into the bundle like wash into a laundry bag, were some of the gaudiest garments, shirts, kilts and shawls, ever worn by man. Most of them were made of embroidery so delicate that the tiny stitches covering all the cloth looked like meshes of the finest weaving. Across them pranced birds and wildcats in reds, pinks, greens and yellows almost as fresh and brilliant as when they came from the dye vats. From their edges dripped cataracts of brightly colored fringe; the shirts had masses of fringe instead...
...seems probable that there will be a general election within the next two or three months. And faced with the prospect of dealing with a newly upheaved economy, the Government could conceivably hope for a Tory victory, in which Churchill and his Party would be left holding the bag...
...Braves couldn't quite get the idea. They happily, milled around, made copious use of the rosin bag, and moved to their positions with the speed and agility of arthritis sufferers. Cooney used three pitchers, though after the second inning the Brooks did their level best to strike, ground...