Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political dogma that, the more Democratic opposition stiffened, the more professional GOPsters would turn to Tom Dewey as the one man who could carry the Republicans into office. They were confident that, by the time he headed back to Albany, the Dewey strategy would have the nomination in the bag...
...against "hysteria," too), played into Smith's hands and gave him good publicity; it would seem on the contrary that the occasion proved that there are at least 700 people in the Boston Area--who won't stand for Jew-baiting, Negro-baiting and the rest of Smith's bag of tricks, and this ought to be good news. The only people who have played into Smith's hands are such members of the national and collegiate press as have encouraged the untruth that the resistance to Smith was disorderly and primarily Communist. If Communists were among the demonstrators, good...
Dorothy Kirsten, Met soprano, was left on the dock. She had come down, bag & handsome baggage, hoping to pick up a canceled reservation, but couldn't. "I feel . . . jilted," she pouted, adjusting her mink stole. Her pressagent said a pitiless reporter pried open one of her fortnighters to see if there was really something inside. There really was, the pressagent reported...
Education & Taxes. Edward has spent 40 years on stage & screen filling his bag of silly-boy tricks. After three years at Columbia University, he spent ten in stock companies, "got pretty well-known as a fellow who had nice clothes," even acquired his own troupe but never cut much of a figure on Broadway...
...about shy, Buffalo-born Warren Spahn. In every baseball manager's book, young left-hander pitchers are automatically listed as eccentric. Not so Spahn. He has what few southpaws have ever shown in their first full big-time season: control, relaxed confidence and a bag of assorted pitches (in 100 innings pitched, he has walked 42 batters, struck...