Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under a flagstone walk the searchers found a metal box containing some $9,000 of the Fall River robbery cash, plus a sugar bag crammed with nickels. On the walls of the hidden vault they found stains which looked like blood. From under the veranda they raked some bones which they thought were human. Under the kitchen floor they found $10,000 more of the Fall River money...
...amplifiers. Gone was Milo Reno's oldtime fire. He read his speech in a hurried monotone, anxious to get through before Huey Long's arrival distracted everyone's attention. Then Huey Long drove up with twelve policemen as his bodyguard and stopped to buy a bag of peanuts at the gate. The band struck up "Every Man a King," and Huey, entering with a Bible and a copy of Liberty Magazine under one arm. joined in the chorus. By that time there were 8,000 Iowa farmers in the audience...
More earthy is Subway Technique: a leering woman with a bag of popcorn reacting favorably to the furtive advances of a subway masher in yellow gloves...
...brown pigskin travelling bag, marked in gold letters on side: Hoval A. Smith...
...links Adams has the advantage, leading Winthrop by a game. The Gold Coasters seem to have the race in the bag here. Lowell has only a mathematical chance of overtaking them. If Adams is to lose, it must lose its last match, and Lowell must win its next two. Adams will almost undoubtedly make the trip to New Haven unless the whole team comes down with the measles...