Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arriving at the town where the governor makes his night speech, says Glasgow, "you first see if you have a room. Later, it is a good idea to go to your room and see whether the bellboy has left your bag. Sometimes he hasn't, and bags are swapped back & forth until everyone has his own. My own bag experiences have been only slightly exasperating: 1) one bag irreparably destroyed in the handling; 2) no bag at all for 36 hours, when I went from Washington to Chicago directly and my luggage went there by way of Richmond...
Louisiana & Tidelands. In New Orleans 70,000 people cheered his arrival. It was a bigger crowd than Stevenson had drawn the week before. The Administration, said Eisenhower, thinks that "all that is necessary to keep [the South] in the bag is a paternalistic-pat on the head once every four years . . . [and] its low admonition that all the South's blessings flow from Washington. You know and I know that is plain bunk." Again & again he ridiculed the Administration's picture of the "fairy godfather in Washington," attacked "Washington powermongers" and "Administration arrogance toward the South...
...each class, Miss Frances asks her pupils to get their mothers, then explains what will be needed next day (some clay, an empty milk bottle, or a paper bag with which to make a Halloween mask). After that, she signs off, while hundreds of tiny hands wave a frantic farewell at hundreds of TV screens. "My," exclaimed one little girl at the end of school last week, "I think Miss Frances just loves us children to pieces...
...emphasis on belts, accessories of all kinds are getting attention. The all-purpose leather pocketbook is being made in a variety of shapes and sizes, a boon to the little girl who looks as if she's carrying her laundry when she sports an Amazon-sized satchel bag. The favorite all-purpose gloves are still string-knit, with the British product out in front...
...Bag. To keep garbage pails or bathroom wastebaskets bug-free, Dallas' Health Guard Bag Co. began national distribution of a kraft paper bag, specially impregnated with Chlordane insecticide, which retains its bug-killing qualities for about two months. Price: seven...