Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus it appeared that the entire Elk Hills business would be dredged up again and that the familiar "little brown bag" in which Edward L. Doheny Jr. took to Mr. Fall the $100,000 which Mr. Doheny calls a loan and Government attorneys call a bribe would once more be inspected by a jury. Shocked, irate, lawyers for the defendants protested that Messrs. Fall and Doheny were being tried twice for the same offense. They argued that U. S. Justice had come to a lamentable state when the Government, having failed to get a conviction for conspiracy, could change...
...Football enthusiasts of 1930, watching a game in (for instance) the Harvard Stadium may perhaps be distracted from the contest by the appearance, out of the sky, of a huge sausage-shaped bag moving along at better than 50 knots. Should the sausage descend close enough, the whole Stadium would be darkened by its shadow, for two football fields laid end to end would not equal its 720 feet of length. Should it approach on a mission of destruction, it could open fire with a battery of artillery. And should a defending airplane squadron seek to rise over...
Mysterious Stranger. During the naval proceedings last week, a strange man, carrying a small brown bag, slipped past the doorkeeper with an air so secretive that the suspicions of an alert Swiss detective were at once aroused. The stranger, grey-haired, straggly mustached, clad in an undistinguished business suit, pattered the length of several corridors, set his bag down, mopped his face. The Swiss detective, with catlike caution, flattened himself against the wall, watched the stranger closely for signs that his bag contained a bomb. Just then a member of the U. S. delegation appeared, shook warmly the hand...
...state secret out of the bag, but kept it still on leash...
Blimp Jinx. At Brooks Field, San Antonio, Tex., the nonrigid dirigible TC-10 243 of the U. S. Army was ready to take the air. But one of its anchors stuck, causing a cable to rip a hole in the gas bag. Unbalanced, the dirigible floundered stupidly, smashed its gondola (cabin) against the ground, ripped its gas bag to shreds, let loose 200,000 cubic feet of valuable helium. The crew of seven escaped unhurt. Major Harold A. Strauss, who was in command of this unfortunate blimp, recalled that another blimp of his had exploded on the same spot...