Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...partly in a Scotland Yarder's careful detective work. Unfortunately the two parts do not cooperate over well. As a study in detection, Hand in Glove lacks the right cat-&-mouse touch because the criminal's guilt-edged behavior lets the cat too quickly out of the bag. As a study of twisted personalities, it lacks the depth that would make the killer terrifying, lacks the intensity that would make the imbecile a final agent of horror. Instead, the boy is merely unpleasant, and the whole play dangles uneasily between the stock and the stark. But it dangles...
drawstring handbag: a couturier's adaptation of a laundry bag...
After last week's fiasco in which our efforts appeared under two titles, Lucky Bag and Double Talk, we have mustered courage enough to drown our indignation and again dip the Parker for the SERVICE NEWS...
Double Take. In Philadelphia, Mrs. Naomi Clegg lost her purse and door-key to a bag snatcher, wondered how she would get in, arrived home to find the door wide open, the place looted...
Under these ace-race handicaps, 34-year-old David McCampbell, an elderly airman as fighter pilots go, failed to bag a single Jap until he reached Saipan last June. Then he had still another handicap: he was promoted to group commander. i.e., battle boss of all the planes of one carrier, and had to direct dive bombers and torpedo planes as well as his fighters. But the Pacific war was moving west and the carriers were closing on the enemy. McCampbell's fighter squadron, which had not yet downed a single Jap, was getting set to start scoring...