Word: satchell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Newshawk McDowell arrived by automobile at Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer snuggery, "I left my hand satchel in the car. It looked too professional. I had the forethought, however, to take out my letter from Cardinal Hayes, and on top of this, fastening it with a clip, I put my New York Times calling card. It was identification. I was all alone. I was not afraid, oh, no. But I might faint or become ill. I knew no Italian and no one there was likely to know any English. And no one there knew me. Folded...
Wallace has a tender spot in his heart for honey-mooners since he rescued a satchel of jewelry, a will, a baby carriage, and other personal effects for a motoring couple who were too wrapped up in themselves to notice a river in front of them...
...relies partly for his effects on his white dress-suit with ludicrously long tails. Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own. He is happy strutting before any good hot band where he can introduce himself as "The Reverend Satchel Mouth" and proceed to triple-tongue a cornet at incredible speed...
...less certain of who he is, Comedian Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante in his fattest cinema part to date gets a full-bodied chance to be hysterically himself. He sings several songs, goes into his famed epileptic fits with popping eyes, rudder nose (schnozzle) and satchel-mouth. When he gets thrown out of places, he dusts himself off absently, saves face by a victorious 11011 sequitur. Cinema audiences are shocked into laughter, as were once Manhattan nightclub audiences, when frail-looking (155-lb.) little Durante survives awful batterings, establishes the immortality of the comedian. Born in Manhattan's lower East Side...
...sponsor of the Fair View Stock Show, county fair which had its 43rd session last October. Last: summer old Country Doctor Stewart caused the erection of a three-ton granite slab. Carved on one end is his name as donor, at the other end is a doctor's satchel. The front is "dedicated to the memory of the family physician." The back is "in memory of those [wives] who keep the home fires burning while the doctor is away on his mission of mercy...