Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alley's merry little elves of music, the tunesmiths and the record makers, have tied on their long white whiskers. Last week record counters were loaded as usual with Christmas productions for every age, taste and temper. There were The Man with the Bag, Christmas in Killarney, Christmas in My Heart, Christmas in Heaven, Christmas Alone, Santa Send Someone to Me, When It's Christmas on the Range, Blue Christmas (Billy Eckstine), etc., as well as the perennial White Christmas. One to avoid: Boogie Woogie Santa Claus. A good one, particularly for youngsters: The Twelve Days of Christmas...
Police said they had questioned the suspects, whose names, were not available, for an hour and then released them because they carried no stolen articles--they had only a bag full of soap which they had claimed was their lunch...
...pilfering team, Radcliffe students and housemothers said, works through an elderly woman who generally wears a dark coat and a yellow scarf, and carries a shopping bag. Her routine has not changed since her activity began. She comes to a dorm and asks to go upstairs to see Anna Kris '53 on the pretext that she works for Miss Kris' doctor. Miss Kris, a resident of Briggs Hall, said last night she had never met the intruder...
...Nick Carter in the attic by candlelight. Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show set hordes of amateur buckaroos to lassoing gate posts and hapless cats. As early as 1907, the Youth's Companion promised boys who sent in a new subscription and $1.15 a "No. 3 striking bag . . . new pear shape, very popular, particularly adapted for quick work . . ." Girls could earn "artistic wood-burning outfits" by selling goldeye needles...
...consecutive floors below are devoted to boxing enthusiasts. The ninth level contains a punching bag room and by the eight floor, the tower has widened enough to allow space for five boxing rings. Pictures of greats of pugilism surround the rings, perhaps for aesthetic reasons, or perhaps for inspiration...