Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dead Weight. In Portland, Ore., a thief politely offered to hold a woman's heavy shopping bag for a moment, craftily ran off with it, found it contained a dead...
...long, like a vast peashooter, the mouth of the maze emitted women, one by one. Each emerged with a look of indescribable triumph, trotted to the counter bearing her size, was handed a paper bag containing a pair of stockings, and hurried on. Ten cash registers, each manned by two cashiers, clanged like tocsins. By nightfall 26,000 customers had carried off 26,000 pairs of nylons and not one woman had pulled a pearl-handled revolver from her handbag...
...rdenas expropriated foreign oil holdings, Alemán organized state governors behind that popular stroke. Astute choice of Avila Camacho as presidential winner in 1940 and successful management of the campaign brought him the key cabinet post of Minister of the Interior and his present, apparently in-the-bag chance at the presidency...
...John Loder, had walked out on her two weeks before and she hadn't seen him since. Said she: "We had a quarrel." Overshadowed Actor Loder had been terribly hurt, too, reported Gossipist Hedda Hopper. She figured that the beginning of the end was when he failed to bag a leading role in famed Wife Hedy's latest picture...
...into the virtues of free enterprise as a teen-aged boy in his home town of Blackfoot, Idaho. He got a job selling peanuts at village and county fairs, made only $1 a day on salary. When he persuaded his employer to put him on a commission (penny a bag) he hustled fast enough to make $3.50 a day, decided he was going to become a salesman...