Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure fielder and a dangerous man with the stick, is the third base guardian. Sullivan, who fills the shortstop's berth, covers ground well, and has the strongest throwing arm of any man of the inner combination. William Ullman '27, another dependable player, holds down the keystone bag, and J. E. Tobin '27, keeper of the initial sack, is a fielder of parts and a strong but inconsistent batter...
Four years ago, for the first time, I met Colonel Guy Goff, now United States Senator from West Virginia, It was on a train, and we spent some time together. The talk turned to reading, and from my bag I produced a copy of TIME, then little known. On leaving the train I left the copy with Colonel Goff and commended it to his interest. Meeting him again a. year ago, for the first time since our introduction, he immediately recalled me, "because, he said, I had brought to his attention a publication which had consistently retained his interest...
...public acts of Premier Baldwin's Government, last week, let two sizable cats out of the Cabinet's bag, the drawstrings of which have been kept knotted tightly at secret Cabinet sessions for weeks. It was clear that the moderate Baldwin-Chamberlain*; cabinet-faction had finally composed their differences with the reactionary Churchill†-Birkenhead** group. Swift action followed, letting the cats out of the bag...
Chinese Cat. With the Churchill-Birkenhead Russophobe cat out of the Cabinet's bag and mewing rather plaintively in the streets, Sir Austen Chamberlain could rejoice in the enthusiastic reception given by the whole British press to an announcement he was able to make, last week, concerning China...
...Hearst, in the capacity of feature writer. One of his first offerings was a lengthy autobiographical piece blaming Mr. Vanderbilt Sr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt for their son's failure. They promised him, he said, three millions "out of my inheritance" . . . then withdrew support "and left me holding the bag." Hearstly screamers broadcast this implied perfidy, together with a picture of Mr. Vanderbilt Sr.'s yacht, Atlantic, and a touching reference to the $4,000 per day it cost to operate her. At the head of a column in his admittedly vulgar N. Y. Mirror, Publisher Hearst was pleased...