Word: handbags
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Hero. In Washington, a patent was awarded to the inventor of a handbag with a translucent bottom, which makes it possible for a woman to discover what is in the bag by holding it up to the light, instead of disemboweling it on a restaurant table...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had lately christened a barge at Port Angeles, Wash., got a phone call after she arrived in Seattle : a diver had gone to the bottom of the harbor, brought up the handbag she had dropped (with her plane ticket, money and eyeglasses...
Trouble was that the girl friend had a sister, as cute a kleptomaniac as ever lifted a handbag. When Ben first saw her he simply said: "You're bad." She "licked her lips," and answered: "You're bad, too." "We're both bad," said Ben happily and switched sisters...
...York City Hall, she was greeted officially by sturdy, splenetic Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. She sat in a leather chair while the Mayor introduced her to city officials, then rose majestically, took a sheet of paper out of her handbag and, with hardly an accent, read her reply. As the first Dutch ruler ever to visit the New World, she was sorrowful that she had come "under the shadow...
...Royal, Neb., a women's club held a stuffed-handbag contest, voted as winner a woman whose purse contained 98 separate odds & ends...