Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comic Relief. The day after Morse's speech, Illinois' Minority Leader Everett Dirksen provided some unintentional comic relief. Arguing that it was unsporting to hold Mrs. Luce's old political speeches against her, Orator Dirksen cried: "Why thrash old hay or beat an old bag of bones?" As the galleries guffawed, Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey played for laughs. "I must rise to the defense of the lady," he said...
After two unsuccessful journeys into the southland of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, the Varsity will again try to bag its first big games of the season this weekend at New York and Princeton...
...Place to Hide. In Cheektowaga, N.Y., after $10,000 was found in a paper bag in a vacant lot, the money was claimed by Mary Panek, 65, who explained: "I was going away for a few days and didn't want to leave it in the house...
...Uncle Frank was coming out of the Tribal Store with a bag of meat and bread when a young lady came and took the bag and told him that she would go home with him and cook and feed him. She walked so fast he could not keep...
Ruark's Regrets. For the old-line purist who wants to do his shooting .450 cal. instead of 16 mm., the tab goes high. Average cost for a single client is $105 a day, plus air fare to and from Nairobi. Licenses in Kenya for a full bag of Africa's big five sporting animals (lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros) come to another $600. If he brings his own firearms, a hunter may be able to get away with 30 days in the bush for $4,000. With photographic safaris pushing into the wilds, most Nairobi white hunters...