Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he let his idea out of the bag the rest of the U. S. had something different to think about: the appointment of two members of the opposition party to his Cabinet. To one of these political outsiders he gave the job of Secretary of War, to the other the equally key post of Secretary of the Navy-boss of the ships which are the apple of Franklin Roosevelt...
...Aryan professor who gets in the way of marching events in 1933 is played with back-bending restraint by Frank Morgan, who once more reveals that his bag of tricks includes far more than his usual movie titter. The swastika soon crosses the romance between daughter Freya (Margaret Sullavan), and her boy friend Fritz (Robert Young). Fritz's transformation from a windy but amiable young donkey into an expert instrument of hatred remains awesome even in a world where it has happened so often. Gradually father, mother, sons, see their world wavering around them, its old, familiar outlines dissolving...
Best anecdote: Absentminded, R. S. leaves, under a hotel bed, in a self-addressed paper bag, a dead syphilitic baby...
Toronto-born Cinemactress Mary Pickford sent a $2,000 gold mesh evening bag to Canada's Citizens Committee for Troops in Training, to be raffled off for soldiers' equipment...
...abnormally long arm - and four strings. A haughty showman, he employed unusually thin strings, not only to produce extremely delicate harmonics (overtones two octaves higher than normal), but also, said some, so that he could break a string, use the remaining three as makeshift. To the fiddler's bag of tricks, Paganini contributed the left-hand pizzicato (plucked note), the double harmonic, the staccato in which the bow is bounced on the strings. He could fiddle a barnyard scene, once awakened an inn with a lifelike rendition of a baby crying...