Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diverted all its trans-Pacific passenger traffic to Los Angeles and the Grace Line had eliminated sailings north to Seattle. The steel doors of the 38 docks on San Francisco's five-mile Embarcadero (see map) had not opened for eight weeks to let a bale of silk, a bag of sugar or anything of the $50,000,000 worth of goods they held pass into commerce. When the first door opened last week, out surged something akin...
...Confederate surgeon who left South Carolina after the carpet bag regime to teach hydrotherapy at Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons, young Baruch accompanied his father to New York, graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1889. His first notable job was with A. A. Housman & Co., stockbrokers. Thereafter Baruch's business was that of making money by his wits in Wall Street. His teachers and friends were rugged individualists of famed memory: James Keene, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Henry Huddleston Rogers...
...stiff upper lip amid life's many misfortunes. Actually, the miseries of Vergie Winters are unlikely, exaggerated and avoidable. That they may draw more tears than any of Ann Harding's other recent martyrdoms is due to Director Alfred Santell's clever use of his whole bag of tricks, including "asides" and sequences of "narratage." Typical shot: Vergie Winters, when little Joan runs into the shop, tying a yellow ribbon in the child's hair...
...soloed. But outsiders were more interested in Jilson Setters, the 75-year-old fiddler whom Miss Thomas took to Lon don a year ago to perform in Albert Hall. Jilson Setters has earned wide publicity for Miss Thomas' folksong society. When he arrived in Manhattan to sail his bag gage consisted of one extra shirt, a quilt his grandmother had made, a gourd for a drinking cup, a corncob pipe and his fiddle wrapped in an oilcloth poke. He came, he said, from Lost Hope Hollow and he was going to see the King. Ashlanders have since said that...
...Loughlin doesn't get the call in all of these games, the question of trying to read Fred Mitchell's mind will again arise. The point is that when he is in a hole like this Mitchell loves to pull a surprise out of the bag. Perhaps he will try Drib Braggiotti, the Junior find, or perhaps it will be Fred Allan. Bill Lincoln is a third possibility. From the point of experience this year, Allan deserves the job, but Mitch is entirely capable of sending in the comparatively inexperienced Braggiotti, who is the chief prospect for next year. What...