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...first victim had tried to fight him off, was dragged into a street air-raid shelter and disposed of there. The police got his fingerprints from the skin of her neck, also from beer bottles in the second victim's flat, also from Margaret's handbag. When they made their arrest last week, four women had perished in five days, all strangled, all mutilated...
Designers of women's clothes, always eager to ride a trend, worked their imaginations overtime. Sally Victor created a fireproof glass-and-asbestos hat, padded inside against cold and bumps, with a flashlight in the brim. Warborn was a handbag containing a bottle of luminous paint and a flap on which messages could be written...
...Guam went an artificial leg, blueprints, electrical appliances, beaded handbag...
...himself into a chair at the table's end, folded his arms, waited for questions. While other reporters sat stiff and silent, up spoke a grey-haired little newswoman: Winifred Mallon, veteran Washington correspondent who has worked for the New York Times eleven years, proudly carries in her handbag the press card which admitted her to the War Department during World War I. Said she: since the press had already made an appeal for unity, did not Mr. Ickes want to "temper" his statement...
...complete outfit, from black velvet dress to handbag, swagger stick and costume jewelry, made of synthetic fabrics or plastics...