Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship's second-in-command, performed the orthodox rite with a bottle of bubbling wine, and Dr. Rolf Thormessen stood by to receive the vessel in the name of the Aero Club of Norway. A silk flag from King Haakon and Queen Maud was run aloft at the bag's stern. Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth entrained next day for Oslo, Norway, leaving Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen and the Norge's designer, Colonel Nobile, to conduct the Norge to Spitzbergen as soon as weather favored. There the chiefs will join her for the great adventure of flying over uncharted white...
...Vagabond, No, he is living up to his name by roaming through the rainy region of Boston. Brockton, Brighton, and Brookline, chasing--not a burglar--but an idea. When last seen he had queer instrument of a green color under one arm with which he said he hoped to bag the idea. Imagine searching Boston for an idea. I told him he was an optimist...
...Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic has been sleeping over ten years. You can't expect much from somnambulists. With one notable exception, LaGuardia, these committeemen are so dry they will not allow anyone to 'drink in' the morning air, and even prohibit a golf bag to have a 'stick...
...that an officer of the Department of Justice had been improperly present in the Grand Jury room. Last week the District of Columbia Court of Appeals overruled Chief Justice McCoy. The indictments stand. The Government can go on with its case against Fall and Doheny concerning the little black bag containing...
George Whitney (J. P. Morgan & Co.) advised the public to divert the flow of the country's exportable capital from foreign bonds to domestic investments that yield dividends. "Why," he asked, "should the American investor hold the bag...