Word: moneybagged
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...special express car of the Orient Express, a service which cuts shipping time for packages across the Balkans from weeks to hours, everything has been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...
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...Mexico City, neighbors of Leonardo Uribe were impressed when every night he carried home a bulging moneybag of 1,000-peso capacity. One night thieves halted Leonardo Uribe, seized his moneybag, opened it, found inside two old boots. The thieves fell upon Leonardo Uribe, beat him to death...
...perhaps some of his satirical sharpness under the late great Artist Whistler. His method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby stigmata, the figure of Theodore Roosevelt the Younger as a small, grimacing boy in a sport shirt, invented for the Smith-Roosevelt gubernatorial contest in 1926, has lately been joined by a small, wild-eyed girl in a smock...