Word: handbagged
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...cigar he was smoking. The crowd wavered, broke, dove into the gutter for the treasured butt. Citizen Coolidge halted to watch men, women and children scramble and scratch, kick and slap. A woman arose from the scrimmage with the remains of the cigar. As she dropped it into her handbag, Citizen Coolidge grinned his amusement...
...Milan, Italy, a woman tried to pay a shopkeeper with coins of suspiciously leaden color. He turned her over to the police. While she wailed, protested she was not a counterfeiter, they examined her handbag, found that a small thermometer had broken, releasing mercury which had formed amalgam on the coins...
...patiently to the Monagasques' complaints. On to Marseilles went she to argue the justice of their claims with her father. At length after a long and exhausting family scene, he relented, wrote a favorable reply to his subjects' demands. With Prince Louis' letter in her handbag, adopted daughter Charlotte hurried back to Monaco...
...After a half-hour, a station employé asked him what he was waiting for. Together they discovered that Director Coolidge had mistaken standard for daylight saving time. ... In Manhattan, Director Coolidge did not attend a performance of The Little Show, new revue. But a portly gentlewoman with a large handbag did attend, in an aisle seat. There is a joke in The Little Show about Calvin Coolidge at the insurance company meeting. The comedian says: "When he opened his mouth to speak, six moths flew out." When the lady in the aisle seat heard that, she clutched her handbag...
...York city one Salvador Ateca, gambling concessionaire of Juarez, Mexico, often mentioned as the financial backer of General Escobar's revolution, was arrested as he prepared to sail for Spain. In his possession was a small black handbag, containing $750,000 in bills, securities and gold pieces, stolen, said representatives of the Mexican Government, from looted banks and the State Treasury of Chihuahua...