Word: satchel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belonged to a Socialist fraternity. Their eleven-year-old daughter Rosa was already being watched suspiciously by government officials, for she carried messages between her brother and his friends. Then one day came the dreaded cry: Pogrom! Rosa, with only the clothes she wore and a small satchel, was hurriedly packed off to Italy in the company of a cousin. There she grew up. The Burschstein relations in Capri were poor: Rosa must work. Working, she sang, and soon a rich woman discovered her voice, sent her off to study with Eva Tetrazzini, sister of Soprano Luisa Tetrazzini and wife...
Detective-work by the New York Times revealed another letdown. "One of the 96 pieces of baggage carried by the [Royal] party is a satchel," cabled a Times correspondent ominously from Argentina. ["It] has a capacity of about one and a half cubic feet, filled with American cigarets of a widely advertised brand. From this satchel the Princes' golden cigaret cases are filled several times daily...
...Guenther-Russell Law Inc., financial advertising agency. Newspaperman Leech works with sleeves rolled up, a green shade over his eyes, at least four spittoons on hand. Sometimes he gets away from work, rolls up his trousers, sticks a pipe in his mouth, wanders into the woods carrying an old satchel, emerges several days later. In addition to economics, he is an authority on politics, a potent discourser on philosophy, nature, baseball scores...
Luck, his pleasant appearance and his expertness in diseases of the stomach kept young Mr. Dawson from the bowler hat and satchel of the obscure English doctor. Minnie Ethel Yarrow, youngest daughter of Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, the potent shipbuilder, was a chronic invalid. A doctor was always at her side. One day the regular man suddenly became ill. Dr. Dawson was handy, was summoned. He cured the girl. They fell in love, married...
...Martin, British Consul at Foochow, sailed up the Min River last week with $50,000 in a satchel and a sharp note for one Lu Sing-pan, bandit chief. Earlier in the week the Misses Edith Nettleton and Eleanor Harrison, members of the British Church Missionary Society, were fleeing from the district of Changsha, which was captured and looted fortnight ago by bandit-Communist troops (TIME...