Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are few situations in life that cannot honestly be settled and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice on a dark night." -Old Chinese Proverb...
...Snow-sketches her woman's world, from perennial vamps to bone-weary matrons, with authority and skill. The book may not be everybody's cup of tea, but at least it is the strong-flavored, real thing-not some substitute out of a literary tea bag...
...only row as the Cambridge crew, we live as the crew: clad in light blue from dawn until dusk. We wear old flannel bag pants and padded blazers during the day and dress for dinner. Studs are standard equipment. Special light blue blazers and white flannels complete the evening habit...
...Venezuela already has 12 British jet bombers (Canberras) and 24 fighters (Vampires). The Dominican Air Force is a grab-bag of 42 old and new propeller planes, made in the U.S. or Britain...
...Kansas City nightclub singer. Very slowly the clodhopper (Albert Salmi) discovers that an ounce of tenderness is worth a pound of bluster, while the audience simultaneously discovers that it is the bluster of a sexual tenderfoot. And the girl discovers that, though courted as though she were a punching bag, she is for once being thought of as though she were a lady...