Word: handbagged
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...formal occasions she wears hatty hats, motherly dressmaker suits, and for a handbag-a majestic holdall." The pussycats of London's fashion press were helping Britain's Princess Anne celebrate her 16th birthday with some swipes at her clothes. "All those conventions of British royal dress have been decanted on her," complained the London Sunday Express's writer, though conceding that Anne does have "the young idea when she's off duty." Well, did that mean miniskirts? Not at all. In Jamaica with Prince Charles for the Commonwealth Games, she made the scene in a pair...
...With the exception of a series of incidents of pickpocketing and handbag snatching created by two boys (since apprehended), there is no indication of any undue violations of law in the squares described," DeGuglielmo said in a letter sent to the Council yesterday...
...others discovered, a woman's handbag is an all-purpose arsenal. Nail files and umbrella handles are good for gouging, hairbrush handles, ball-point pens and rolled-up magazines for general jabbing at vital areas. Hatpins* are oldfashioned, but very useful: "If you hold it by the top you can make holes in people." High heels and key rings are excellent for leaving marks: "Hold the key ring in your palm, make the keys extend through your fingers and scratch. We won't have any trouble identifying...
...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...