Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very few things that Mr. Lynch sees in an athletic way are not "in the bag." Even college athletes, according to his views on the subject, don't die for dear old Rutgers without the Rutgers A.A. assuring responsibility for funeral expenses. No master is a hero to his valet, and very few athletes are anything but names to Mr. Lynch...
...green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin the rack-to take bags from bag-rack for dispatch...
...Brancusi, you will not put a want ad in the papers telling God it will be to His advantage to come around to see you; ... if God is saving a corner for any battling bag of bones, there will be one for you, Brancusi...
...19th Hole. Frank Craven has written a golf comedy. He introduces a hero who is chiefly interested in stained glass; introduces this hero to a bag of golf clubs; proceeds to develop the domestic difficulties of this hero. Soon a menace appears in the form of a domineering colonel, to whom the dreamy hero refuses to pay a golf wager because he thinks the Colonel cheated. Actor Craven plays more craftily than he writes. The loudest laugh of the piece greets Mr. Craven's plaintive protest that he did not vilify the Colonel; simply said he was sunk...
...woman had no business to attempt such a flight. It was perfectly ridiculous to read of this young person's chatter, of her preparations for the event?her vanity bag, Chinese ring, knickers, black and red four-in-hand tie and pastel-shaded band over dark brown hair?and to remember that she was going to risk her life just to gratify her stupid vanity...