Word: handbagged
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Traveling Bag. In Atlanta, Ruth Brown lost her handbag in a restaurant, went to a store to buy a new one, found her own bag for sale on the counter...
...plaid shirt), the Duchess in what she helpfully described to some 50 welcoming reporters and cameramen as "a blue wool suit with a red wool jersey, a striped silk hat-I guess that's what you call it-with a veil, and a black box calf and alligator handbag." Also a mink stole. But no jewels. (Explained the Duke, whose Duchess got stolen blind back in Britain: "Well, really, there wouldn't be many left to bring, you know.") They figured on staying till May this time. Then back to France...
...that she was the only living person who could write about China as though it slept under her pillow. Raffles of Singapore has just the same chummy tone; few historical figures have ever been apostrophized so chattily, so personally-at times, Hero Raffles simply gets lost in the Hahn handbag, like a lipstick. Nonetheless, Raffles of Singapore is a lively, unconventional biography, which is also as formless as a conversation conducted by walkie-talkie...
...pasted a dog's picture ever his own and went in & out of the courthouse for days. On sentencing day itself a woman reporter moved by all the guards and reached the courtroom, to discover that she had forgotten to take a .38 caliber revolver out of her handbag. She could have leaned over and shot Göring -or the Chief Justice. But Colonel Andrus puttered about, occasionally stealing a dentist's tool from the prison dentist's office, just to see if it would be missed. It always...
...average, metropolitan matrons bought an Easter bonnet for $25, double the prewar price, a $70 suit (rounded at the shoulders, narrow at the waist, wide at the hips), a $15 white blouse (lacy and fluffy), a $15 pair of shoes, a $5 pair of gloves, a $25 handbag and $25 worth of miscellaneous frippery...