Word: bagging
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...Stimson had nothing to say for quotation. But speaking informally he let quite a cat out of his diplomatic bag. He revealed the drift of an exchange of notes with the Imperial Government which he had asked the Japanese to keep secret and which they had kept secret. The striking part of Mr. Stimson's revelation was that he had received assurances not only from Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara but also through him further assurances from Japanese War Minister General Jiro Minanmi and from the Chief of the Japanese General Staff. These assurances were such, declared Mr. Stimson...
Because a giant had stolen their inheritance (a bag of gold, a hen which laid golden eggs on command, a magical harp) Jack and his mother had to live in a hovel, had finally to resort to selling their faithful cow. A lesser cow would have ambled placidly off to the butcher but the Erskine cow, like the Erskine Helen, had spirit...
...Santa Monica, Brother-in-Law Leavitt began to explain: "I grabbed the bag and now I'm holding it. I didn't know what was in the sack but I tried to be a good fellow. ... I guess anyone would try to help another out in a case like that. . . . One of the officers whispered that I should give the name of Jones. I objected but he insisted. ... I don't agree with Hoover on the Dry question? but I wasn't drinking." (A year ago Brother-in-Law Leavitt was arrested for intoxication, paid a $25 fine...
...Bohemian fairytale, Schwanda, a bagpipe player, was a perfect antidote for boredom. He melted Queen Ice-Heart who would have married him if his wife Dorota had not appeared with her carpet bag, demanding explanations. He put new life into the Devil who, before Schwanda visited him, was reduced to playing solitaire and reading Hell's tabloids...
...Manchester Guardian quoted "the editor of one of the earliest of South African newspapers" on how to bag lions in the Kalahari Desert, as follows: ''The Kalahari is principally composed of sand and lions. First sift the sand through a large sieve, when only the lions will remain. These you place in a bag carried for the purpose...