Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Germany began to hint at what it would do with Russia once the Bear was in the bag. The weekly Reich suggested that there would be a "healthy mixture" of individual and collective farming. It could be gathered from Reich's discussion that the Russian peasants would be loudly assured that some day they might again rule their own roosts. Possibly the little vegetable patches and few animals that Stalin has allowed Russia's collective farmers to cultivate privately-sometimes life-savers-would be somewhat increased under Hitler. But almost certainly Germany would stick to basic...
...England Princess Margaret Rose, who turned eleven, was presented with a birthday cake with no icing. ∙ ∙ Eleanor Roosevelt turned up at East Otis, Mass, wearing cotton stockings. ∙ ∙ Caddies at a Bar Harbor club went on strike, and Edsel Ford had to lug his own golf bag around the course. ∙ ∙ Madeleine Carroll asked the U.S. Government to hand back $9,092.55 in income taxes, claiming 51 little French refugees as dependents...
...Reds were in a bag, the Germans claimed. They would have to stand and fight, or tumble, Dunkirk-wise, into the Black Sea. According to Moscow, the Germans spoke too soon. The greater part of the Red Army of the Ukraine had made an orderly retreat, were outside the sack, were crossing the Dnieper to take up new positions...
...Sing Sing and into a waiting limousine popped Richard Whitney, paroled after three years, four months of prison for grand larceny when his brokerage firm failed. His luggage: a Gladstone bag, a wicker hamper, a cardboard box, two sacks holding miscellaneous belongings. In his jeans: a check for $183, most of it his earnings at 15? a day as clerk in the Keeper's office. Immediate prospect: stewardship of 25 cows on a Cape Cod farm. The rules: don't change jobs without permission; keep regular hours; stay away from firearms, liquor, convicts, Wall Street...
...closely identified with the character. Says she: "I love Maisie, but I'm damned if I want to be Maisie forever. . . . When people on the street holler at you, 'Hi there, Maisie!', you begin to wonder whether you're Ann Sothern or just that nice bag Maisie...