Word: handbagged
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...streetcar clanked slowly along Munich's long, steep Tegernseer Landstrasse. Inside, behind the plywood which replaced the car's bomb-shattered windows, it was dark. The conductor was collecting fares. One woman fumbled in her handbag for a 50-pfennig piece, dropped it on the floor as the car shook...
Manners. In Mobile, Lurline M. Kohler woke to find a stranger rummaging through her handbag, screamed, "Get out of my room!" to the would-be thief, who meekly murmured, "Yes, ma'am," put the bag down and beat...
...American Automobile Association, perturbed by the regularity with which pedestrians were colliding with their member cars, hopefully set out to popularize tail lights for the man in the street. The lights, two-inch plastic reflectors, come in red, orange or yellow, can be worn on the wrist, on a handbag or pinned to clothing-preferably just above the rear bumper...
...orita Bombal herself once contemplated suicide. That was in Santiago in 1941. Instead, she ran into an old fiancé, impulsively drew from her handbag a Mauser pistol, fired four shots into him. He recovered, forgave, filed no charges...
...giving Wilde's finest play what it sorely needs and seldom gets - a wonderfully high-styled production. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde tossed rubbishy"realistic" plots out the window to indulge his taste - and his talent - for nonsense. With its baby found in a handbag, its imperious dowager who is "a monster without being a myth," its one young man who invents a dissolute brother and its other young man who blithely proceeds to impersonate him, Earnest is often farce at its most absurd...