Word: bags
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...tall, self-effacing man with a boyish grin, Otto arrived at the office each day carrying his lunch in a brown paper bag. He left at precisely 6 p.m. to catch the train to his home on New York's Long Island, where he worked mornings and weekends at his 27-year-old Royal 440 manual typewriter, turning out books at the rate of two pages a day. (He once broke off in mid-sentence after reaching that quota.) Otto's contributions to Time went beyond his muscular prose. A patient, sometimes acerbic and always inspiring mentor, Otto set standards...
...said we were unloading luggage [and] hesaid 'Well, this car has got to be out of here in15 minutes' and he left," says George, who carriedthe keg into the dorm in a large duffel bag...
Predictable mishaps ensue: One of the servant twins mislays a bag of gold he never received and is nearly killed because of it; one of the master twins does not appear for dinner and nearly loses his wife. Luckily, at the end of the play, the twins realize their mistakes and all ends well...
...thermos inside. After a while it broke, and I got a metal Little House on the Prairie lunchbox with pictures of Laura and Mary and Ma and Michael Landon all over it. After I lost that, I brought my lunch to school in a brown paper bag. Then we ran out of food at my house, but I told everyone I had a magic invisible lunch, and they all thought I was the coolest kid in the second grade...
...falling in and out of bed that Andie MacDowell and Hugh Grant did in Four Weddings and a Funeral,a movie that I didn't like much precisely because there was no other basis for their relationship (and because MacDowell can't act her way out of a paper bag). Our sleepless nights when we were together last year were spent in other ways, but I was always glad to be there at 2 a.m. when we both slaved away on papers due at noon, when he would wave his arms in the air and proclaim "I'm doomed...