Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asking his Societies to take action. Therefore he last week proposed that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde decree, as he is authorized by law to do, that there shall be no open season at all this year for duck-hunters. Duck-hungry gunners, their season already shortened, their bag already restricted (TIME, July 13) glowered in Dr. Pearson's direction, yet stroked their chins when they thought of a world shot completely out of wild fowl...
...Canadian conservation officials gathered twice last month, first at Edmonton, Alberta, then at Bismarck, N. Dak. At the second meeting a resolution was passed urging: 1) that the open season be limited to 30 continuous days, instead of eight or ten weeks; 2) that the daily bag be restricted to ten ducks instead of the present 15 (formerly 25); 3) that ducks in possession be kept down to 20; 4) that all baiting of hunting grounds be prohibited...
...epilog to the Red River war occurred when the toll bridge receivers secured a belated Federal injunction against Governor Murray's military blockade of their property. Defying the Federal Court and refusing to withdraw his troops, Governor Murray packed an old-fashioned horse pistol in his bag, set out for Durant to take personal charge of his siege. When he arrived, he found the free bridge al ready open. He closed it for five minutes and then officially reopened it in the name of Oklahoma. After drilling his army of 32 guardsmen, posing for photographs, eating a salt pork...
Mayor Edwards' foes accused him of having gone over bag & baggage to the Power Trust. The Mayor raised a cry of "Communists!" against his accusers, charged them with being foes of private property. Vainly he tried to get the courts to block the recall ballot. William Randolph Hearst's Post-Intelligencer and the Scripps-Canfield Star vociferously favored the Mayor's recall while the conservative home-owned Seattle Times fumed against "foreign-owned press caterwauling." Many a Seattlite was grieved to see this dirty municipal contest come to a head at the height of tourist season...
...second round, was a stroke behind Farrell. Cox, disgusted by a 39, changed to the smaller, heavier old ball, shot a 35 on the second nine. It was a cool, grey day. Henry Cotton, generally considered most formidable of the British Ryder Cup players, strapped two umbrellas to his bag in case of rain...