Word: bagging
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...Post sent young Brian Untiedt to distract Herbert Hoover in his most crucial White House days. When Silverton, a mountain hamlet near Denver, was cut off from the world by a hundred feet of snow, Bonfils sent an airplane which circled slowly above the outcasts, and then dropped a bag containing five hundred copies of the Denver Post. The domination of the Post, however, was soon challenged by the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, and the most spectacular of advertising wars began. The Post offered a gallon of gasoline, at twenty two cents, for each want ad, the News offered...
...actively backed it. State Legislatures, anxious to help farmers as well as to please sportsmen, have begun to fall into line. Finally, their wits sharpened by Depression, farmers have begun to cooperate. New York, which has a regular pheasant season of only six days, with a two-bird bag limit and shooting of cock birds only, now allows farmers to sell hunting rights on artificially-raised pheasants without limit on season, bag or sex. Many a new York farmer is doing a nice business at $6 to §15 per gun per day. Texas, where gamewise farmers have been compensated...
...apprehensive master's signal. Worse, the girl, too, is in the house. The results of Derwent's manipulations with a wall clock may puzzle you, but if you think it over a while you will find that Playwright Armstrong has played fair. Cleverest twist to the whole bag of theatrical tricks occurs when Derwent saves himself from detection by impulsively blurting the only truthful statement he makes during the police inquiry...
...that "extreme instrument" in the Roosevelt tool bag, the Securities Act, Sir Josiah chuckled: "They designed it to protect investors but in their enthusiasm Congress so framed it as to make it impossible to draw up a prospectus so as to raise money...
...this case the Corsican comes to life in a wax works under the torrid gaze of a film actress (Lenore Ulric). He makes a date with her for the evening, borrows Woodrow Wilson's top hat, Mussolini's sponge-bag trousers and with some advice given by Landru, the wife-murderer, sets off to the assignation. Some French generals hear of the resurrection, insist that the Little Corporal make all Europe French. After a visit to a disarmament conference, a few experiences with radios and telephones, Napoleon goes back to the wax works in disgust. All this...