Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shredded Feat. In Metropolis, Ill., Carl Bock, 19, held up Fitch's Dime Store, got away with a bag full of cash, was fleeing through a parking lot when his pistol fired into the bag, scattering money in all directions...
Well past midnight a strapping Negro named Salim al Abdullah, one of Prince Nawaf's two bodyguards, returned to the hotel. He was carrying a small black bag and had an un-Moslem smell of alcohol about him. A hotel porter took the black bag, accompanied Abdullah to his room, where he put his nightclothes into the bag; then both headed for the prince's suite, where Abdullah was to take up his guard duties. Unhappily they went to the wrong floor. Abdullah's key would not open the door, so the porter got a passkey from...
There are serpents in this artificial Eden. As foreigners, they are plagued by spies and boredom. As one character sums it up: "Too many ruddy parties. Too many wives-too much nattering over canasta, coffee and so on . . ." What is worse, there is "hanky-panky with the bag," i.e., polite smuggling under diplomatic cover and black-market trade in PX items. This is the basis of a complicated but well-drawn plot in which Novelist McMinnies demonstrates that she knows her way around Eastern Europe as well as her first book, The Flying Fox (TIME, March 11, 1957) showed that...
...good deal of time brooding over breeding. Her characters are as itchily class conscious as if they knew they wore shirts made of the wrong kind of hair and were too proud to scratch. The trouble begins when beautiful Milly Purdoe starts the hanky-panky with the diplomatic bag and makes a baggage of herself with her husband's friends. Unfortunately, the natives are better at this sort of thing, and Milly only proves that Britons never should be Slavs...
...sleeve. "If I had the money I'd buy me a hot dog now." Vag sneered and steeled himself against the good-humored salesmanship of a nearby vendor. He now felt not only perverted but cheap, and when a peanut salesman came by, Vag eagerly bought a small bag to share with with Sebbie. Bits of shells were blown all over Vag's flannels, but the peace of mind was worth...