Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government lately told the House of Commons is officially "one of the most vital spheres of British interest." In past decades concessions obtained by British promoters from unwary potentates have repeatedly enabled British diplomats, often years afterward, to wangle, bluff and bludgeon much Empire spoil into the bag. From this point of view the Lion's left paw seemed well placed last week...
...they put-putted southward across little ponds and up small streams. Few hours later they made out a splotch of red-colored wreckage in the river a quarter-mile ahead near the Eskimo village of Walkpi. They landed, found a little group of natives huddled about a sleeping bag. On the ground, under the sleeping bag, lay the body of Will Rogers, his legs broken, his skull crushed. By his Ingersoll pocket watch, still ticking...
Very dearly would Secretary Wallace like to get out of holding this profitless bag, stop making any more 12? loans. But with the price of cotton threatened by a crop that is huge by 1935 standards of consumption, it was last week becoming politically more & more difficult for him to refuse to make another price-pegging loan offer. In effect, he was in that unfortunate position in which Herbert Hoover's Farm Board found itself when that luckless agency tried valiantly but vainly to peg the price of wheat...
...gold; the dipsomaniac writer; the hero pining for his lost love who makes her appearance in time's nick; the shady financier; the cuckold with his wife and her dishonest lover and all the rest. However, in China Seas this familiar crew has a new and entertaining bag of tricks to display...
...ties is abnormally high, from a single run-down mangling establishment which he inherited from his father. Convivial, impudent and gregarious, George Marshall is entertained at being accused of social climbing. Once he sent his friends a Christmas card which showed him scrambling up a ladder with a laundry bag on his shoulder. His friendship with Son George Hearst led to his becoming the 17th publisher to be hired by Father Hearst for his Washington Times. In a year, he got himself fired for being underfoot in the city rooms...