Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second salient factory in the spirited enthusiasm in football is the fact that it has never come under the finger of suspicion. Never have we heard of a college football game being "in the bag." The sport will ever remain popular just so long as the rules committee forces the employment of officials that are interested enough in the game and will do nothing to detract from its popularity by a questionable decision...
Woman's Shaving Tackle. Not forgetting its pedestrian readers the Guardian reported: "The most striking exhibit, from the hiker's point of view, is an 'ultra-lightweight week-end kit,' comprising rucksack, sleeping-bag, tent, a four-peg coat-hanger, a petrol-stove, frypan, water-bucket, a plate, cup, receptacles for food and drink, knife, spoon and fork, and electric torch, a pair of shoes, a tent pole, swimming suit, complete change of clothes, towels, soap, facecloth, shaving tackle, and toothbrush, the whole weighing slightly over ten and a half pounds...
...overcoat, and his proud captor discovered that the Greek Prosecutor was out for luncheon. Mr. Insull returned to the small Petit Palais Hotel, ate in his room, sat down to tea with newspapermen. Then he went off again with M. Coutsamaris, returned to the hotel for dinner, packed his bag for a night in jail. Because Drs. Voylass, Dimitriades and Trupakis found Mr. Insull in bad health (diabetes, chills, arteriosclerosis, myocarditis, enlarged liver, high blood pressure, traces of brain congestion) he was well treated and given a special room in the police station...
Hence there appeared on the Harvard campus in March, 1923, a sawed-off youth wearing a monocle, top hat, morning coat, and sponge-bag trousers. He was temporarily put up at the Harvard Union in a bed in which President Roosevelt once had slept. Later he stopped for a time at the Phoenix Club. Specialists in the Prince's Harvard career say that he brushed aside the matter of entrance requirements by describing to President Lowell, in a personal interview, how his papers had been destroyed when the Rods burned the Winter Palace. Mike was enrolled as a student...
...Jail," the companion picture, is another of Wheeler and Woolsey's uproarious, inane vehicles, in which the two protagonists get railroaded into jail and proceed to win the football game in an inter-prison league. Stadium tactics are hardly in order when our two heroes let loose their bag of tricks, not the least among which are a chloroform-soaked handkerchief and a boomerang pigskin...