Word: handbagged
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...spite of all the popular misconceptions, writers do seem to have one characteristic in common--they are individualists. This was borne out in an advanced writing class last Fall, when one Radcliffe member pulled out a huge pipe from her handbag, piled it high with aromatic tobacco, and started smoking with all the guest of an old salt. The ten male writers sitting around the table were left gaping for only a second; from then on they refused to blink, and so the class ended happily...
Wrong Number. In Kansas City, Store Clerk Walter Browning listened patiently to a customer's description of a hat that had attracted her in the window, gently broke the news to her: it was a handbag...
...horrified keepers and police learned the unbelievable truth. Chang had devoured a young woman; he had swallowed her clothes, her hat, and even her large handbag...
...differently, too. Part of his changed behavior was doubtless due to the discovery that once again he was always right. But mostly it stemmed from the sight of inflated prices. Shoppers who had once thrown down money as carelessly as a drunk winning at roulette now clutched billfold and handbag with a kind of desperate disbelief, and began pinching and prodding the merchandise...
...Throckmorton (she's not in the Blue Book, by the way)." A day later it told more about her: she was not just any old Mrs. Throckmorton, but the Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton of Cape Cod and the nightclubs, who was "reliably reported to carry $4,000 in her handbag at all times-plus a gat in good working order. She . . . once appeared in a nightclub in a chenille bedspread...