Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what do you know. He's not selling marijuana. Fact of the matter is, he's selling clothespins. Or rather, he wants you to go to Woolworth's and buy a bag of clothespins and then wanders around Cambridge clipping them on to things...
...seen lace; Dior has taken to decorating the top with flowers and Belle-Sharmer has stockings that fasten with snaps. Best solution slim girls have found is pantyhose, sheer tights that do away with girdle and garter (sales have already increased 20%), but even they are far from ideal-bag at the ankle when left loose, rip if they are pulled tight. As one young modern put it: "Let's face it; the only thing that really works is bare legs...
...story is told as a grab bag of gleanings from Teacher Barrett's mailbox, blackboard, wastebasket and students' schoolwork. Teachers chuckle in recognition at the memos Miss Barrett receives, such as one beginning: "Please disregard the following," and at the kids' comments, such as a boy's note explaining his failure to turn in homework: "My dog pead on it." Teachers everywhere seem to have kids as sniggery as those of Miss Barrett's, who is advised by a veteran teacher: "Never give a lesson on lie and lay" and never say "the word frigate...
...Depravity surrounds Ford. The clerk of his sporting-goods concern has lifted half a million dollars from the firm, and makes a scoundrelly proposition. He will abscond with the loot unless Ford gives him his daughter's hand and a general managership. The swag is in two matching bags. When a third identical bag containing the downstairs maid's lingerie is shuffled on to the scene, the plot boils over in mistaken identities and furious bag snatching and switching...
...help harvest it, the bureau has developed outsized, bag-shaped trawling nets and telemetry gear that help pinpoint the schools, which swarm at depths of 300 ft. to 600 ft. Two commercial trawlers recently began using the gear, have been pulling up enormous catches of as much as 120,000 lbs. Last week the bureau offered to outfit a dozen more ships with the equipment, which is worth $14,000, in return for permission to conduct further experiments on board the vessels...