Word: bagged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...containing 500 milligrams ($30,000 worth) of radium had been left in the cab, each man having thought that another had it. Word was sent to all the newspapers warning the finder to ware burning himself. Next morning a restaurateur a few blocks from the hospital reported discovering the bag under a table in his restaurant. Its intervening experiences were unknown...
Like twelve fat vegetables in a soup plate, twelve great balloons nestled in Pitt Stadium at Pittsburgh. The evening light was fading as the first bag, piloted by W. A. Klikoff and Pete Lawson representing Aircraft Development Corp., slowly rose into the air and, once above the rim of the stadium, swam rapidly away in a brisk westerly wind. One after another the rest of the bags rose and floated away...
...Williamstown, Vt., one Charles Snow packed his bag and set out for big Boston to make his way in the world. He told Fannie Simonds to wait for him. That was 60 years ago. The Snows, 76 and 73, are now on their honeymoon...
Seeing her husband thus at peace, Madame La Maréchale, frugal, set off to market, taking along her cook to carry the market bag. Then for a time there was no one in the house but "Papa" Joffre, so fast asleep that he did not hear light steps on the porch, the creak of the front door which Madame La Maréchale had accidentally left unlocked, or stealthy footfalls which soon indicated that someone was prowling all over the house. Surely it could be no sneakthief. Who would steal from lovable, heroic "Papa" Joffre, who saved Paris...
...inspector asked the Congressman if he had any liquor. The Congressman replied that he had four bottles of whiskey, but as he was a Government official returning from an official mission he could not be stopped. The inspector dipped into one bag and brought up four bottles which he set conspicuously upon a packing case. Customs Inspector James McCabe, working nearby, witnessed the incident, saw the bottles. The Congressman went to a telephone, called the Custom House, obtained a "free entry" order. Liquor was not mentioned in that telephone conversation. The Congressman was thereupon passed, tak- ing with...