Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crosswords appear each fortnight in London's Sunday Observer under the byline Ximenes (a Cardinal Inquisitor of Spain). Ximenes' puzzles, for which he is paid 10 to 15 guineas ($30-$44) apiece, contain clues that range from pure cipher through anagram to outrageous pun. Samples: "Pleased a bag ?14 lighter" in four letters;** "Important city in Czechoslovakia" in four letters ;†† "Shortage of bats at a high level" in six letters...
...Bikes & Bags. At 46, Sanford Roth is a relative newcomer to big-time photography. Born in Brooklyn, he went through the public schools and New York University, spending most of his time bicycle racing ("I loved the competition-I like to be better than anyone else-and I liked the glamour and those sweaters we wore"). After college, Roth got a job with a ladies' hat-and-bag retail chain, and in a few years was vice president in charge of the chain's West Coast territory. By 1946, he was making better than $30,000 a year...
...suspect has a book in his bag gage, the spycatcher has a dreary task ahead. The volume must be taken apart and every line of every page put under the microscope. Pinto's toughest example: "a closely printed dictionary, 700 pages in length," brought into Britain by a "Dutch refugee." Not until page 432 did Pinto find what he was looking for -"a tiny pinprick" under one letter. Other pinpricks followed under other letters; when written down in order, they gave the addresses of Nazi agents in Stockholm and Lisbon...
Most hiccups can be cured in minutes or hours by holding the breath, drinking water, applying heat to the diaphragm or breathing into a paper bag (to raise the carbon dioxide content of the air breathed). But not Jack O'Leary's. Hiccuping that goes on for months or years can eventually kill the victim through exhaustion and starvation...
...look; when he comes back, get up in fun And have a wrestle with him, just a rag; Then I'll jump up and slice him through the bag While he is struggling, thinking it a game; You draw your dagger too and do the same...