Word: bags
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wynn's Carnival, The Perfect Fool The Grab Bag...
...match. Consequently things look bad for Luke who has bet his roll on the former intercollegiate prom trotter. Not to let his money go so easily, he accepts the challenge and forthwith begins another battle of the century in which every comedy gag in the versitile pair's bag of tricks is uncovered. In the end, Luke wins, of course, when the two of them roll down a declivity and Cannon-Ball meets a stump halfway down with Luke...
...remember the night down in Santiago when the Colonel bummed a drink of my whiskey and I wrapped him up in a tent and put him to sleep on the top of a bramble bush. . . ." Said a whiskered merry-andrew, "It was you and me that tied the bag around Johnny Tenner .... He was a great kid and he sure could beat that drum. . . . I met his girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy...
Small Balloon. One Leo Stevens rode 350 miles in a 50-pound balloon. Standing in the vaselike basket, too narrow to sit down, he traveled all night from Englewood, N. J. to the vicinity of Saranac Lake, N. Y. Releasing the hydrogen, he put the bag and basket on his back, and walked to the nearest railroad station...
...ends of a vast and complex organization, submerged his own personality. After he moved to Manhattan he collected art, raised fine cattle, went to the opera. But just before he left Wheaton, Ill., to be head of the Federal Corp., a friend found him sitting with his hunting coat, bag and gun in his lap. "I will never use them again," he said...