Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a bevy of Tuaregs in a mock brawl staged for his cameras, Thomas intoned between chuckles: "The bad guys. Versus the good guys . . . Make it look good, Achmed! My grandmother's watching on TV." All this and Timbuktu appeared in Thomas' latest color adventure, a grab bag of odds and ends on African superstitions. The oddest was a weirdly effective sequence showing how the Hova of Madagascar dig up their dead each year, roll them in shiny new wrappings and carry them about in a gay shuffle dance before returning them to their graves-a ritual precisely...
...recovered their keys and cars only to discover that good tires and battery had been switched for worn-out items. A long procession of witnesses testified to other ingenious ways in which they had been cheated. On the Rev. Bert D. Crouch, Caruso played all the tricks in his bag. Caruso's salesmen upped the price of Crouch's new car. pocketed $200 he had given them to make the last payment due on his trade-in, sold the trade-in under the clergyman's name (it promptly became involved in an accident for which...
...shameless pimps, and now stands on the ragged edge of poverty, bartering to parvenus for bread an empty dukedom bought with a female relative's dishonor." Brann scoffed at James Whitcomb Riley, "the poetical ass with the three-story name," railed at a clergyman-critic as a "monstrous bag of fetid wind," adding: "The man who can find intellectual food in [his] sermons could acquire a case of delirium tremens by drinking the froth out of a pop bottle." The son of a Presbyterian minister, he rang some of his angriest cadences against anti-Catholic bigots, called them "equal...
...Publisher Annenberg, whose booming Triangle Publications will add the Daily News to its rich grab-bag collection (TV Guide, Seventeen, Daily Racing Form, Morning Telegraph), saw a promising opportunity for a light-feature and top-of-the-news sheet that will not try to match the intensive local coverage of his Inquirer or the prosperous Bulletin. Under its new publisher, the Daily News will go from a semi-morning paper (six editions, from midnight to noon) to one-shift afternoon publication (two editions, at 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.), in competition with the Bulletin. It will drop its pallid...
...Life is a big red bean bag...