Word: handbags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes the Elsies hard to spot is the fact that their pretended symptoms are generally rooted in some real lesion from the past. Two almost certain signs of the Munchausen syndrome: an abdomen full of scars and a handbag stuffed with hospital attendance records...
...Last week Miss Shipman, a wiry, retired schoolteacher who once circulated petitions for Sacco & Vanzetti, decided to rush to the rescue. Although she had never met Browder until the day before, she marched into Washington district court, dug 15 new $100 bills out of her battered handbag and demanded his release. Was she a Communist? reporters wanted to know. "Now that's none of your business," she said "and don't you make up anything." The authorities counted up the money, shuffled, scribbled, nodded sagely, and then, only seven days after locking him up, heartlessly booted Earl...
Another car, this one belonging to Forest L. Gould '52, a commuter from Bellview Street, Cambridge, was unlocked by a thief who broke the right front ventilator window, and then stole a brown handbag containing money and jewelry...
...silence, the eight women and four men filed into the jury box. From his seat, Alger Hiss looked at each one, his lips set in a tight smile. None returned his look. Priscilla Hiss fingered her handbag, stared straight ahead...