Word: handbagged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...papers are less sensitive. "Speaking of John Wilkes Booth, history may have done him wrong," Tom Ethridge wrote recently. "Mrs. Lincoln had accused Honest Abe of flirting with a cute actress in the play he was watching. There was an argument. Mary Lincoln drew a .44 derringer from her handbag and fired the fatal shot. John Wilkes Booth happened to pass the presidential box at that moment. Being a true Southern gentleman, he gallantly took the rap for the first lady...
...reaching up his sleeve, he pulls out the tip of a 16-in. long microphone gun, shelters it with his palm and points it at the stage. In the orchestra seats, a woman wraps her program around a slender microphone, switches on a tape recorder hidden in her bulky handbag, and settles back...
...teetotaling daughter can brim with feminine charm. She constantly experiments with new hairdos (last week it was short and curly), can often be seen in a crowded New Delhi market munching ecstatically on the spicy Bengali yummy known as chaat. Though not conventionally devout, she always carries in her handbag a pocket edition of India's most sacred scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. She has always refused to run for Parliament, though she would be an unbeatable candidate, explaining that she considers "the role of mother more important." Nonetheless, Indira tilts tirelessly at the myth that Indian women are delicate...
...radio transmitter that slips easily into the jacket pocket or handbag, transmits nearby voices to a receiver three blocks away...
...Lady Bird Johnson-strictly in the time she could spare from shopping, entertaining, and running a household-was able to run up the contents of her handbag into a $5,000,000 estate [Nov. 29]. Such talents ought to be applied more widely. If J.F.K. thought it not robbery to make his brother Attorney General, then by golly L.B.J. owes it to the nation to make his wife Secretary of the Treasury! We may be able to shake this national debt thing...