Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon another 600,000 members of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers may be back too. Chief obstacle to the readmission of the Miners has been Lewis' grab-bag District 50, which has raided all kinds of A.F. of L. unions. But the Executive Council received a letter from John Lewis last week cooing his willingness to dissolve District 50 into the appropriate A.F of L. unions. The Executive Councilmen, thinking of 600,000 dues-paying members, prepared to gulp down their old hatred. Labor Expert Louis Stark predicted flatly: the U.M.W. will be readmitted soon...
...Hope, as well as all traveling celebrities, Block's prime job is to localize gags so as to take comic advantage of particular localities. Thus, when Hope referred to a North African native woman as "a Lister bag* with legs on," the boys in North Africa howled...
There came a problem of school days and book bags. Not a thing in Navy Regs about the method of wearing or carrying --so we're testing our individuality. Worn the same way as the purse--bruises the right shoulder and left hip-but we can swing our arms. Slung over the shoulder--a la sea bag--seems a bit too "salty...
...Bag folded over and tucked under arm--well, it's nice--but looks sort of pedestrian. Any suggestions...
...Cheer which Irving Berlin and Moss Hart brought to Broadway a decade ago. M.G.M. reportedly paid $25,000 for that show and its bull's-eye title back in 1935, but has taken its own aim from there on. The MGMarksmen ring no resounding bell, but they do bag 1) an average musical wartime romance (Private Gene Kelly v. Colonel's-Daughter Kathryn Grayson), 2) a brisk, hefty variety show featuring a clutch of M.G.M. stars and three bands (Kay Kyser, Bob Crosby, Benny Carter), 3) Pianist José Iturbi in his screen debut...