Word: handbagged
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...handed a paper bag containing a pair of stockings, and hurried on. Ten cash registers, each manned by two cashiers, clanged like tocsins. By nightfall 26,000 customers had carried off 26,000 pairs of nylons and not one woman had pulled a pearl-handled revolver from her handbag...
...anything once and usually does, tried designing the well-dressed woman of 2045. She looked a little like a scarecrow with a fatal fascination for crows, a little like a collision of paper pinwheels (see cut). Her accessories included a big crutch with a zipper (to serve as a handbag, also as spiritual and moral support) and a little crutch with strings (to lift the skirt...
...week's end two universities in the interior were still on unbroken strike. Colonel Perón's communiqués showed no sign of worry. But the Colonel's lady was a little nervous. In her handbag, Eva Duarte reportedly carried an Argentine Army hand grenade...
...cocktail bar in Detroit, a bus in Houston, a Manhattan shoestore. She always remarks, in a loud, smug voice, that the war is making her prosperous and she hopes it goes on & on. At this point, a patriotic woman bystander lets go with a well-aimed umbrella, handbag, or whatever is handy...
drawstring handbag: a couturier's adaptation of a laundry...