Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Confusion. In Elkhart, Ind., Druggist Charles Judd, his mind on his simples, mailed a sack of letters in a bank's night depository, deposited a sack of money in a mailbox...
...even stood up to Queen Victoria. While he was vicar of Portsea, the largest parish in England, with twelve curates under him, she told him a good wife would be more help than any six curates. "If I have a curate I do not like," he replied, "I can sack him. But I couldn't sack a wife." Forty years later his views on sacking a husband cost Victoria's great grandson the throne...
...front saw a pudgy man with cheeks like apple dumplings, blue eyes beneath crooked restless eyebrows, the merest foam-flecking of sandy gray hair on his bald pink pate, a long black cigar clenched at a belligerent angle above his bulldog jaw. From the sleeves of his blue sack coat extended long cuffs, half hiding the small hands folded placidly across his middle...
...pageants of boys in the turbans and robes of the Three Wise Men and girls with the gauze wings of angels. Midway through the evening a man would slip quietly away from his seat, and at the end a pillow-fat Santa Claus would suddenly appear, lugging a sack of oranges and candy...
...Angeles Times started a new classified-advertising section called "Defense Aids." A Manhattan department store used half a newspaper page to advertise air-raid whistles, asbestos gloves, first-aid kits, rubber boots, flashlights, axes, shovels, a 100-lb. sack of sand...