Word: knapsacked
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...pinnacles. With only his valet, van Dyck, he jumped in a little car and drove over. At the foot of the cliffs he looked at his watch, recalled that he had an engagement at the Palais des Sports in Brussels that evening. Then he took a rope, a canvas knapsack and a climbing ax out of the rear of the car and started up the cliffs...
...from the backs of fellow-prisoners. From his guards he bought tin for the tiny swords which could be drawn from the scabbards, for the bayonets which could be fixed, fur and hair for the headgear which could be removed, leather for the boots and belts. Every gaiter, buckle, knapsack was exact. Even the tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers, hat like a modern U. S. Army...
Perturbed by a lack of pockets, Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida invented a knapsack to contain briefs, bills and other necessities. To make it harmonize with feminine attire, she hung it from one shoulder by a strap with a silver buckle...
Albert and Elizabeth, King & Queen of the Belgians, carrying cold lunch in a knapsack, went with other tourists by cogwheel railway from Grindelwald to Jung-frau-joch (11,340 ft.) in the Swiss Alps, explored glaciers, descended unrecognized...
Napoleon said the baton of a field marshal was hidden in the knapsack of every soldier. Leopold Stokowski, Little Corporal of orchestra directors, believes the baton of a conductor may be concealed in the sleeve of each and every man in his famed Philadelphia Orchestra. Following the resignations last week of assistant conductor Artur Rodzinski, who goes to the Coast as leader of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; of concert master Mischa Mischakoff, who blurted that he was leaving because of Stokowski's "rude and unfair treatment"; and of David Dubinsky, leader of the second violins, who deserted for reasons...