Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henri Baels entertained lavishly, sent his family to the swank seaside resort Le Zoute, on the Belgian-Dutch border. Leopold, now King and widowed, often went down to Le Zoute to golf. When he was reported on the course, Marie-Lelia and her sisters would slick up, take a bag of clubs and skip off to have a round of golf. Leopold soon became conscious of witty Marie-Lelia. He enjoyed her company, chatted with her when he could. And he never forgot...
Argentina was all excited last week over an election that seemed to be in the bag. Populous, rich Buenos Aires Province (which surrounds, but does not include, the capital city) voted for a Governor, for provincial senators and legislators. As an added prize, to the winning party would go the largest single block of electoral votes for the 1943 Presidential election...
...gathered in Washington to hear lumbering Roy Hendrickson, Surplus Marketing Administrator, outline the Government's plans, agreed that they can do the job if they have to. All they asked was assurance that the Government would really take all surpluses off their hands, not leave them holding the bag...
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, who has often adjured the press not to give away secrets, finally told correspondents why one of his own magazine articles let a cat out of a bag...
Senator Guy Mark Gillette of Iowa stuffed 56 newspapers in a canvas bag, trotted from door to door in Washington covering the delivery route of his young son, Mark, in bed with a cold...