Word: handbagged
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...typical American girl was well-dressed, with new-look skirts (many European women have not converted), and page-boy hairdo. She carried her valuables in a handbag with an over- the-shoulder strap, a device unheard of abroad. Gentlemen on the street would stop to give her a long appreciative stare, a stare which began at her feet and worked its way leisurely...
...Some Human Substance." Near an old factory in Crawley, detectives soon found some interesting evidence: a piece of red plastic like that on a handbag which the missing widow carried, a ten-gallon carboy, one of several used to store sulphuric acid, and ashlike specimens of what a Home Office pathologist called "the residue of some human substance." Haigh was promptly taken into custody...
Near the royal palace, septuagenarian Queen Mother Elisabeth approached a voting booth. For a moment she fumbled for her glasses in her handbag. Housemaid Juliette Deemes shouted: "Let Leopold come back and get a good kick in the backside!" From indignant bystanders rose countercries "Vive la Reine...
...also accused of being furious at her for taking two hours off to get a permanent) had given her the report, asked her to make notes, insisted that she take them to New York to study over the weekend. As for the rest of the data in her handbag-she was so overworked that she had to take things home...
Defense Attorney Palmer played it as though the Government's attorneys were just straight men in his act. In cross-examining the agent who described Miss Coplon's arrest, he snatched up her handbag, minced up & down before the jury. "Now comes this great eclipse," he bawled, "this marvelous piece of FBI ideology!" When searching her, he said, the FBI had "stripped her from pillar to post" and from "topsail to feet...