Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, carrying a black knitting bag, arrived in Kansas City to speak on fashion. "I'm knitting for the Finnish soldiers," she explained...
...there are the big producers, who like to play poker and polo. Intrepid and hard-working Ouida Rathbone is leader of an amorphous salon of her own, and she managed to bag a specimen of nearly every Hollywood social genus for her party...
...foursome, Coach Jaakko Mikkola refuses to underrate their strength. Maddon, the Blue anchorman, is a steady runner; he clipped off a 50 flat in the Millrose meet. There is always the possibility, even a probability in this case, that Yale has a new man or two up in its bag of tricks...
...mountains of conceit (Virginia and South Carolina), they appreciate a politician. When Jim Farley stopped off at Charlotte's Southern Railway station one day last week, the mayor gave Democratic Chairman Farley the city's key, Charlotte's postmen gave Postmaster General Farley a leather traveling bag and the Elks gave Elk Farley a hat which unfortunately proved to be a couple of sizes too small for his bald head...
Without consulting the membership, the officers created a new position for Dr. Hamilton, signed a five-year contract raising his annual salary from $6,000 to $12,000. But Comitia Member George Baehr of Mt. Sinai Hospital, balking at this $60,000 pledge, let the cat out of the bag. (Most Manhattan doctors seldom see $12,000 a year...