Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ulen reached into his bag of tricks and pulled forth Eric Cutler as a 100 breaststroke. The Crimson captain sped through the century in 54 flat to beat favorite Bob Schaper of Brown by a touch. Cutler had already annexed his regular 220 in 3:18, just ahead of Frannie Powers, and would have been ready to take on all comers in the 440 had the score demanded...
...opera with Society Empress Grace Wilson (Mrs. Cornelius) Vanderbilt, Georgia-born Mrs. J. Ormond Lawson-Johnston, once a Broadway mammy singer known as Betty Lee, now a London socialite and intimate friend of the Windsors, dropped her evening bag (containing diamond-studded, gold-plated doodads, value: $2,500) on a Manhattan street. Missing it, the party returned to the Vanderbilt Fifth Avenue mansion, questioned all the servants. Flustered Mrs. Vanderbilt called in the dicks. Next day the bag was returned by an honest jobless couple who had found...
...early last year Adolf Hitler had already shown the world that his bag of tricks was not bottomless. Instead of winning another bloodless conquest in Poland, he ran his land empire at last afoul the sea empire of Britain-and into an expensive, probably long and debilitating war which may well end disastrously for him and his country. The Allies have not cracked his Westwall-but he has not cracked their Maginot Line. His vaunted air fleet has not leveled Britain, as advertised, and once again Germany finds herself dangerously blockaded by the British Fleet...
Last week the cat finally jumped out of the bag. In the Episcopal Hospital, Dr. Muncaster successfully removed a cataract from the eye of a 95-year-old patient. Enterprising reporters, seeing a good story, asked Dr. Muncaster his age. As usual, he refused. The reporters prodded Dr. Muncaster's old cronies, paged through medical directories. The result was a good 20 years more than anyone had suspected: age 82. In that operation patient and doctor totaled 177 years...