Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solicitor-General of the U. S., correct in morning coat, wing collar and striped sponge-bag pants, last week appeared before the U. S. Supreme Court to attack a foreign-born lunchroom proprietor of Hot Springs, Ark. in a case fateful for all alien radicals in the U. S. Important also for Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor were the Solicitor-General's arguments, for in attacking Radical Joe Strecker, able Robert Houghwout Jackson was clearing the name of Frances Perkins, against whom rested impeachment charges based on her alleged mollycoddling of an even more famed alien radical...
...Cardinal Pacelli declared the Pope truly dead, a new order, rigidly governed by ancient protocol, was in force in the Vatican. Cardinal Pacelli, now Camerlengo (Chamberlain) of the Holy Roman Church, was given the Ring of the Fisherman from the Pope's finger. Placed in a red silk bag, the ring was later broken, as symbol that there was an interregnum in the affairs of the Church. Aside from Cardinal Penitentiary Lauri, in charge of the Pope's funeral, and Camerlengo Pacelli, administrator of the Church and head of the approaching conclave of Cardinals, all papal offices...
...summer of 1932 a frightened man named Samuel Insull sneaked off to Europe, leaving owners of his holding companies' debentures holding the bag for $76,644,000. Last July, Corporation Securities Co. debentures paid a 4.75% dividend. Last week a Chicago court was asked to approve payment of a 4% dividend on debentures of Insull Utility Investments, Inc., top holding company of all. This will bring total Insull dividend payments to $3,160,760, or just over 4? on the dollar...
...last month, Rena, somewhat tarnished in appearance, did not ride with him to receive his pardon. Since then they have seen little of each other. Newspapers hinted at a divorce; Tom called the rumors "lying statements by my enemies." But last week Rena let the cat out of the bag. Said she: "Tom has talked to me about a divorce. He can't divorce me now. ... I can't understand. . . . What is there left for me? . . . We're old. I want to spend the remaining years with Tom Mooney ... the old Tom Mooney...
...week on the point of emerging from a six-year bankruptcy, unfolds a jolly story about high jinks on India's frontier. Poor old Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe) has small part in the proceedings. In the first part of the picture he wobbles about carrying a goatskin water bag. In the last part, he inspires a scared-looking Rudyard Kipling to produce a commemorative poem. The rest of the time Gunga Din's doings are eclipsed by those of three agile young sergeants-Gary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks...