Word: handbagged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rehearsals were slow work. Watching the action, Clurman would dictate comments to two translators ("That girl drops her handbag as though there's not a yen in it"), then pantomime the parts as he wanted them played while the notes were read in Japanese to the actors. Despite this cumbersome procedure and the actors' difficulty with naturalism, Clurman thinks that he'll have a hit when the play opens on Sept...
...jump from 35% to 80%. Fabric makers began running out of stock, started using up old yardage as well as tinting all of their beige, light blues and whites. By last month, Stocking Manufacturer Gerbe was putting out 48,000 pairs of brown stockings and tights a week, and handbag shops found that nine out of every ten bags sold were brown...
Then, he took her handbag which contained about $13, and ran. Police have not apprehended...
Journeying out with the money in her handbag, she is soon spotted as an easy mark. A predatory woman coaxes her to her home and spikes her drink; the old lady passes out, and her purse is rifled for everything but small change after which she is unceremoniously dumped in an alley. She develops pneumonia; teams of doctors save her life but not her mind. In the shadows of the apartment, the old lady withdraws into herself to bicker with the whisperers, who have settled in to stay...
...famous old name will appear over a San Francisco shop window next fall. On display will be such elegant curiosities as a measuring tape encased in black baby-alligator skin, a champagne-colored leather-lined ostrich handbag, and a wine-colored pheasant-feather necktie. Inside the store, the rich smell of groomed leather will signal devotees of Mark Cross that their favorite New York specialty store has broken out of Manhattan and spread its wares before customers far from Fifth Avenue...