Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earthquake itself is dissipated as the author patiently herds his characters one by one through the disaster. In the end, Author Bromfield metes out justice with the precise hand of a Sunday School superintendent distributing awards and censure. Only the faithful nurse, Miss MacDaid. is left holding the bag...
That's really a minimum of plays for a team, annually one of the most deceptive in the country, and has a bag of tricks equaled by few, if any, teams in the East. But it was not only the small number of Big Green plays that has made scouting then so difficult, but the fact that not one play demonstrated has had the least semblance of being deceptive or unusually "tricky...
...bottle full of milk, to mount and ride wild horses in a race across the arena; cowgirls riding broncos (with the stirrups tied down as a concession to their sex); Cowboy Billy Keen vaulting over an automobile with two horses; trick Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen knocking a paper bag from the head of an assistant in the course of making a ringer, lighting a match with another ringer: mounted basketball, a game with all the punishing features of water polo, football and a riot in a picket line; Trick-Roper Gene McLaughlin, 7, of Del Rio, Tex. performing with...
...Rasputin-like fanatic who wanders around in a moth-eaten bear rug, proclaims Colonel Steele the new Messiah, finally marries an outsmarted chorus girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb's traveling bag is rewarded by a small mummified head which turns out to be that of the mayor's long-lost missionary father...
...Maintenance boys are at it again, and this time they have come up with an automatic leaf collector. Gone are the days when little piles were raked together in odd corners to sit until somebody came around with a burlap bag...