Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came to the U. S. in 1897 and became, with Willie Anderson, Ben and Gilbert ("Gil") Nicholls, one of the game's U. S. quartet of Grand Old Men. Witty, violent, robust, strong-tongued, he was a great teacher. He loved to recall the time when a golf-bag was an object of ridicule. "Do I look like a sissy? Well, that's what they called...
...charge against Doheny was that he had bribed Albert Bacon Fall, Secretary of the Interior, in 1921, with $100,000 in cash, delivered by Doheny's son in a little black bag, in return for a lease on the Elk Hills Naval oil reserve in California. Five months ago, on practically the same evidence used against Doheny, Fall was convicted of receiving a bribe (TIME, Nov. 11). Admitted by the defense in both cases was the transfer of money, the leasing of Elk Hills. For each jury to decide was the intent behind the giving and the taking...
Many and potent are the stories of the "Caterpillars." In 1919, the blimp Wingfoot Express flew over Chicago on a good-will tour of inspection. Directly over the business section, one of her motors backfired, flames licked open the hydrogen-filled bag. In an instant, the peaceful scene changed to a holocaust. Four of the five passengers jumped with parachutes. The fifth, his harness tangled, fumbled and fumbled with it as the white-hot wreckage carried him to death. The flames ignited the parachute of one of the jumpers. He dropped straight to destruction. The other three landed. One died...
Pope Pius XI told an audience of 200 priests: "It is not uncommon now to hear very young children call their fathers 'stupid'' and to hear adolescent youths describe their parents as 'encumbering bag-gage.' This breakdown of domestic discipline constitutes one of the most urgent problems of the present...
...evident embarrassment, a young negro in a white bag wig a trifle too large for him and black satin knee breeches a trifle too small stood on the main staircase of the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, last week, while 2,000 people snatched programs from his hand and pushed past him into the official opening of .the Second International Antiques Exposition. A well- mannered, dressy crowd, visiting the antique show seemed as definitely a part of the socialite calendar as the horse show, the opera, the flower show, or Newport's tennis week. Restrained in their comments, visitors wandered from...