Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much attention to it. There was comparatively little talk about it; it raised few heated arguments. To all except a hardy band of diehards (who are now trumpeting their clairvoyance), it seemed that there was almost no point in going to the polls; the result was in the bag. The election would prove to the world that the world's greatest democracy could change leaders almost as easily as its motorists changed gears...
...will as an explanation of all human acts. Various types of mental sickness (amnesia, etc.) have been used and used again as springboards for psychological thrillers. In fact, the theme has become so familiar that a relatively new visual idiom has been worn down into a bag of movie cliches (the close-up of the vague eye, the trick shot of all outdoors whirling round & round, the heart beating an audible tom-tom, the psychiatrist with his smooth sofa-side manner...
Five events are definitely in the bag for the Crimson, according to Ulen's premeet predictions, and the Varsity has a more than even chance to take the other four...
Sure enough, the heavens opened; the rain beat down upon Kern County. Dr. Fenenga then took his bag to Berkeley and found the great cyclotron buildings drenched with welcome rain. With a solemn face, he presented the rainmaking bag, beaver tail, eagle down & all, to the University of California...
What Bartlett needs now is to have its splendid, grab-bag riches winnowed and put in order by a touch of scholarship...