Word: bagging
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...court look shabby. Well does Counsel Seabury, who dresses sombrely, almost clerically, know this. When Lawyer Untermyer was defending District Attorney Grain last spring, on the first morning of the trial, Counsel Seabury and his young assistants marched into the courtroom tricked out in morning coats, with sponge-bag trousers and pink carnations, looking like the groomsmen of a wedding party...
...asking his Societies to take action. Therefore he last week proposed that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde decree, as he is authorized by law to do, that there shall be no open season at all this year for duck-hunters. Duck-hungry gunners, their season already shortened, their bag already restricted (TIME, July 13) glowered in Dr. Pearson's direction, yet stroked their chins when they thought of a world shot completely out of wild fowl...
...Canadian conservation officials gathered twice last month, first at Edmonton, Alberta, then at Bismarck, N. Dak. At the second meeting a resolution was passed urging: 1) that the open season be limited to 30 continuous days, instead of eight or ten weeks; 2) that the daily bag be restricted to ten ducks instead of the present 15 (formerly 25); 3) that ducks in possession be kept down to 20; 4) that all baiting of hunting grounds be prohibited...
...they sing "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen," "Bye and Bye I'm Gonna Lay Down My Heavy Load and other true songs, while the Devil jumps up & down waving at them with a hayfork. The Millionaire comes down the road to Heaven, carrying two enormous bags. Each bag is simply, eloquently labeled ONE MILLION DOLLARS. He refuses to give money to the Widow and her Children but offers one bag and then the other to St. Peter. St. Peter shakes his head. The Devil gets the Rich...
...epilog to the Red River war occurred when the toll bridge receivers secured a belated Federal injunction against Governor Murray's military blockade of their property. Defying the Federal Court and refusing to withdraw his troops, Governor Murray packed an old-fashioned horse pistol in his bag, set out for Durant to take personal charge of his siege. When he arrived, he found the free bridge al ready open. He closed it for five minutes and then officially reopened it in the name of Oklahoma. After drilling his army of 32 guardsmen, posing for photographs, eating a salt pork...