Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stealing away from the Christmas Eve hubbub to bag a few partridges on the grounds of Madrid's El Pardo palace, Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 69, had fired off some 40 shots when the left barrel of his British Purdey suddenly exploded. "It is a matter of little importance," shrugged the icy-veined old soldier, surveying his bleeding left hand. "Give me a handkerchief to tie it up." The Caudillo seemed unfazed by the fact that had he been sighting along the horizon instead of upward over his head, the explosion might well have caught...
...Arms (and Sacramento City Manager) Bartley Cavanaugh. "are careful hunters, and there is no shooting over the limit." Diplomatically unreported by Cavanaugh was the fact that while the Chief Justice did. in fact, knock down his limit of five mallards and sprigs, the city-bred Governor managed to bag only four...
...Capra tells the teary tale, raggedy Annie has an iron kidney and a golden heart. People think she is selling apples just to make gin money. Little do they know that the burlapidated old bag is (violins can now be heard sobbing on the sound track) An Unwed Mother. Yes, the dear old girl is living on Gordon's and garbage, and sending every lousy nickel to a Spanish convent, where her wide-eyed, ever-loving daughter lives with some kind old nuns who teach her to be a lady and shield her from the awful truth about...
...brightly colored toys of all sorts and sizes, synchronized in what Disney & Co. call "animotion." Singer Sands, who most of the time is about as hard to swallow as a Vaseline sandwich, suddenly pulls on a fright wig and does a brilliant bughouse turn as a batty old bag who reads tea leaves and such. And Villain Bolger is granted at least one grand line. "Come!" he calls sepulchrally to his comic accomplices. "Let us lurk...
...this stuff is highly questionable. Australopithecus was a great discovery, but the evidence that he used weapons is extremely flimsy, and there is even less proof that it was the weapon that led to his development into true man. In any case, weapons are only part of the bag of tricks that raised primitive man above his apelike relatives. Equally important were nonviolent, food-getting tools such as game traps, digging sticks and mills for grinding hard seeds. Fire was vital. So was speech, which enabled men to cooperate closely, form permanent cultures and exchange useful information. Ardrey hardly mentions...