Word: handbags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's teen-aged thrill killer of 1945 was Lena Theresa Nienstedt, a whisky-drinking factory girl of 16. She carried a small hatchet in her handbag because, she said, "some guys get fresh." After a few drinks one evening, she used the hatchet on a 71-year-old tailor, picked his wallet and went home. "I felt easy and happy and calm." she said later. "Then I remembered I had left my hatchet in the shop. I dressed and went back . . . He was still gurgling. I hit him on the head some more until he was quiet...
...storm Blair House and assassinate Harry Truman in 1950. A fourth member of the gang was picked up at a bus terminal. The four had left New York that morning, buying one-way railroad tickets in the expectation that they would lose their lives. In the woman's handbag, police found a penciled suicide note. "Before God, and the world," it said, "my blood claims for the independence of Puerto Rico. My life I give for the freedom of my country. This is a cry for victory in our strugle for independence . . ." On the back of the note...
...shouldn't say that because those people did go to so much bother to make my visit pleasant." A sizable audience gathered at Gimbels to hear Grandma talk about painting. Instead, she told them in detail how she made preserves, and concluded her talk by opening her handbag and showing a few samples. No one could possibly have invented an old lady more refreshing to a jaded urban public...
...possible must work out of our system, first, all the vogue words that almost always mean nothing but temporary vacancy of mind-such words as 'basic;5 'major,' 'over-all,' 'personal,' 'values,' 'exciting' (everything from a new handbag to a new baby) ; then . . . all the tribal adornments which, being cast off, may disclose the plain man we would like to be: no frames of reference, field theories, or apperception protocols; no texture, prior to, or in terms of; and the least amount of coordination, dynamics, and concepts...
...president of the United Nations General Assembly walked serenely to the dais, fussed through her handbag for her glasses and a pencil, then spoke to the hall full of delegates in a soft, lilting voice. "I regard your choice," she said, "as a tribute to my country...