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Word: bagged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the letter from Paris-the following: ". . . A gipsy woman got into an autobus and sat down next to a Parisienne who moved her handbag out of the gipsy's reach. The gipsy said, 'Why do you do that when you have only 18 francs in your bag?' The woman had exactly that sum. Then the gipsy told each of the other passengers how much he or she had, down to the last sou. 'Since you know so much,' one passenger asked, 'tell us when Hitler will die.' 'On December second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Senate: let the opposition talk its head off, then vote the bill through as is. The House version of the Great Debate sounded hotter than the Senate's -chiefly because of the necessary brevity of the speeches-but actually meant no more. That the vote was in the bag was conclusively demonstrated when wily old Speaker William Brockman Bankhead, Hamlet of the House, took the floor for a passionate defense of the measure: near the finish-post, he always cheers the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: F. O. B. Washington | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...afternoon last week Manhattan Patrolman John Cersosimo chased a ramshackle Buick lickety-splitting through Harlem. When he caught up with the Negro driver he saw, squirming and squealing on the back seat, a bulging burlap bag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In the Bag | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...What's that?" he said, opening the door, and gingerly poking the bag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In the Bag | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Hustled to Magistrate Peter Abeles, Alexander pleaded guilty to a charge of cruelty to animals. For eight cats in the bag, he spent two nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In the Bag | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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