Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Garrick seemed old and tired when he entered, and the waiting Laborites figuratively fondled fresh sacks of old vegetables. Nye Bevan came in with a shabby brown briefcase, and was greeted by Tory protests that the bag violated...
...table of smorgasbord, with some of this and some of that ... to hold the readers who draw the advertisers who pay your princely stipend. Why don't you write more funny stuff? ... I guess you don't want people to know you still tie a bag on now and again these days when you have gone cosmic and claim to know all the answers . . . Keep them guessing, Pegler. Don't groove your stuff so that they can figure you for unions Monday. La Boca* Tuesday, civil rights Wednesday, and your message to mankind Thursday...
...same day that Ingrova set a women's Olympic javelin mark of 165 ft. 7.05 in., husband Emil cracked the Olympic 5,000-meter record in 14 min. 6 sec. With a 10,000-meter record already in the bag, he entered the 26-mile marathon three days later, broke another Olympic record in 2 hrs. 23 min. 3.2 sec. to become the only Olympic athlete ever to sweep the three distance races...
...Geiger, an American G.I., came back from Italy with an odd trophy in his barracks bag : a print of Roberto Rossellini's Open City, one of the first movies made in liberated Italy. Geiger had bought the exclusive U.S. rights for $13,000. In seven years the film, which startled U.S. audiences with its documentary realism, grossed more than...
...spirits. Like many a tourist before & after, he found ample material for jokes in such things as French opera and royalty, nuns and pubs, Italian comedy and conversazione. Then, when he seemed to be becoming quite a man of the world, Walpole was rude to him. Gray packed his bag and went home to Cambridge, a gentleman scholar living on a modest inheritance...