Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between his country and the U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg insists that the treaty be a multi-power affair "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." Out of the clash of these two concepts has come a nine-month long game of diplomatic bean bag (TIME, July 4, 1927). Last week M. Aristide Briand sent one more note to Washington from which it appeared that the French position is now, in substance, as follows...
...whooped and gamboled at play in the garden of an Egyptian hotel near the great pyramid of Cheops. Nearby reclined a young woman, easing certain internal pangs with a hot water bottle. She, roused by the scion's arrogant, unbridled shouts, rose up and hurled the comforting rubber bag at the Stanley child. Striking his shoulder, the bag burst, and scalded him so smartly that a physician had to be summoned...
Captain Brown wrote, published, told salt yarns. My Ditty Bag-dedicated to his "loved and loyal wife who sailed for Australia with me a week after our marriage, and who has been a good shipmate during these many years"-has an exciting chapter "Fishy" ending with a quoted instruction for "landing" the biggest possible swordfish aboard a dory in the open ocean: "Fasten his tail over the gunwale to the afterthwart; put his sword over your shoulder; put your big finger in his eyeball; grab him with your other hand near his tail; when she rolls to leeward pull hard...
...sooty drawing of a burlesque policeman twirling an enormous stick over the head of a small figure with a derby hat, enormous ears, tight little coat, baggy pants and suitcase shoes at a familiar angle. This figure, whose little bamboo cane was labelled "Will Hays," was tossing aside a bag of boodle and grinning up at the officer with wrynecked, Chaplinesque embarrassment. The cartoon's title was "The Gold Rush...
...machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon and shot down a Fokker plane with the words: "Jeeze, what'd you want to pick...