Word: carpetbagging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ripped, all the water trickled helplessly out, and the driving-wheels rolled down either bank. We were half-way to Pelican Swamp after six hours' travelling. I instantly determined to leave the old lady, bab and baggage, to the tender mercies of the railway officials, and I seized my carpetbag and walked the rest of the way in fifteen minutes...
...lady hiding her face behind a large black carpetbag? It was none other than Katharine Hepburn, 60, playing hooky from her star role in Coco to catch her good friend Lauren Bacall, 45, in Applause-and visibly annoyed when Manhattan's press photographers spoiled her getaway act. When one especially persistent reporter tracked her quarry all the way home, she got more than a picture. "Get away from me, you little brat," hissed Katie, "or I'll punch you in the face...