Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evidently the Crimson squad figured the game was in the bag after that early scoring spree, but the Purple and Gold came storming back and won the contest largely on the strength of their superb condition. While the Crimson just managed to drag through the last quarter, the Jeffmen finished the game still charging hard...
...always funny," he was, to the best knowledge of the reading public, making one of his most timeless statements. In the very latest issue, for example, there is a somewhat autobiographical piece by a writer who describes himself as having "the appearance of a second-hand, dejected tea-bag" and whose prose style is, in most respects, consistent with his aspect. The cartoon on page seven of the same copy, portraying a successful caricature of the late Roger B. Merriman patting the head of a small Freshman, and carrying the caption "Saturday, September 21. Freshman advisers. 'Drop in again...
...back, went about their business as if nothing had happened. Late one night last week they prepared for an important conference in a blue-walled, chintz-curtained Hollywood apartment. Benny slipped a cocked Mauser under the bedsheets and hid a .32 in the closet. Levinson laid down a Gladstone bag containing two sawed-off shotguns. As it turned out, these arrangements proved sadly inadequate...
...gaunt white-haired Scotsman named Archibald Campbell spoke of bagpipes in loving, Scottish terms: "You know of course they were invented by some fellow who . . . wanted to make noise, so he had the bright idea of killing a sheep, using its skin as a bag, and sticking a pipe in it. Then, of course, he just stuck more pipes in to make more noise...
...have played the pipes if it hadna bin for ma father, but he was a stern mon and kept me to it ever since I was six years old." Pipe-Major Reid's twelve-year-old son is doing very well on the chanter, a pipe without the bag-but, said Reid, "he winna take the bag...