Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed Canal Street victory, commemorated now by a marble shaft, put an end to the evils of Reconstruction in New Orleans, driving out the northern Republicans and their Negro tools. Major General Behan was elected Mayor of New Orleans in 1882 and, having rid his city of the Carpet-Bag type of Negro officeholder, continued to be a doughty Democrat until...
Graham is going to "scream," and also "burst." That's good news. However, this won't create a ripple; where there is nothing, nothing can burst. An acrid stench extinguished, whose space could be used for an eighth of a bag of phosphate...
...finds gold, all right. He takes it to San Francisco, where he blunders into polite society. The slick city men hornswoggle him when he plays the stock market. But, finally, by virile tactics, he gets even with them and marches out of their office with a big black bag containing $3,000,000. Then dat ole debbil Burning Daylight says to his sweetheart (Mrs. Milton Sills, the onetime Doris Kenyon): "Let's go back to Alaska." And, three guesses and no fair peeking, who wrote the original story...
...like Hooverism little better than Lowdenism were saying, last week, that Uninstruction and Coolidge-Anyway controlled between 200 and 300 delegates; that other claims were exaggerated; that the nomination was in nobody's bag unless, as Vermont last week said it hoped, in President Coolidge...
...Impatient, fretful, the three Germans waited for clearing weather. There was nothing to do but pace the turf of Baldonnel Airdrome, inspecting and reinspecting their Junkers plane and its powerful Junkers engine. Talk in idleness led to argument. Baron von Huenefeld spoke a fiery word. Mechanic Spindler packed his bag, left, and then there were only two. No one dared ask the tight-lipped Prussian exactly...