Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the man who packs his bag with heavy books and notes there is no greater moral coward. To stoop to that ultimate degradation of deceiving one's own conscience, to carry books vacationing with one, not to be opened until the fine for lateness has reached appalling dimensions, is the last stage in the degeneration of a vagabond...
Miss Miller, a pastoffice employee in Hemel Hempstead, discovered the volume which was printed in 1688, in a bag of books bought for about 60 cents by her mother. Auctioned off to a London bookdealer the treasure incognito brought the discoverers 2100 pounds...
Most suggestive of the comments Miss Hayes so courteously made was her statement concerning the growth of the "type" actor in the theatre. Where once versatility counted for much in the actor's bag of tricks, it now counts for little. Nor did Miss Hayes believe this to be other than good." It gives", she said, "the individual a greater chance to develop his art within very fixed limits. And that, as you know, is after all conducive to the greatest...
Knute Rockne knew his men could beat Carnegie Tech. He packed his bag and went to Chicago to see the Army-Navy game. Into the fold on Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, stole a rowdydow team from Carnegie Tech, rocked Rockne's unbeaten Baby Buntings asleep...
...water on their Winter range which reduced them to starvation. Thousands of them starved in Arkansas and Louisiana and it was likely that more ducks died in the South from this cause than the hunters in the valley had killed when they went through. . . . We did not need lower bag limits. We needed more water and more food. Yet all through that distressing situation we were bombarded with associational propaganda in which it was made to seem that unless we shot fewer wild ducks there would be none left...