Word: bags
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version of that affecting ballad, "Father, Dear Father Come Home with Me Now"; the verisimilitudinous fable of the aleful mother who staggered home with her child in one arm, a bag of meal in the other, threw the baby in the meal chest, the bag of meal in the cradle, woke to find the child dead, signed the pledge. And this, from 10,000 Temperance Anecdotes, justly entitled "A Curious Performance": "I once heard of a man who went to a tavern...
...also of the Washington Post), won an agreement from Hearst to stay out of Cincinnati for at least three years. Thus, when the Commercial Tribune lost even its political prestige at last month's election, Publisher McLean could cut it loose. The morning field was well "in the bag." * The Commercial Tribune was sometimes called "second oldest newspaper in the Northwest Territory," the Chillicothe Scioto Gazette, the oldest. Actually both are deviously descended from the Centenil [sic] of the Northwest Territory, founded 1793. Most famed editor of the Commercial Tribune was Murat Halstead, holding office...
...Badly out of the bag, however, were 186 Commercial Tribune employes, thrown out of work virtually without warning. The boxed announcement of the sale appeared in their paper directly under a page-wide headline reading $150,000,000 ASKED FOR AID OF UNEMPLOYED...
...Clergy Club of New York & Neighborhood, an organization of miscellaneous Protestant doctrinaires, assembled to protest. Dr. Walter Laidlaw, Presbyterian, the Club's founder, spoke harshly: "Bishop Manning . . . [has] taken the wrong club out of his bag for an approach to the consecration of a co-operative bishop suffragan, or played an ineffective drive in his deliverance on the polity and program of the church needed...
...attacked administration retorted quickly to Dr. Horriaday's suggestions. They said they had always upheld all of his resolutions except the McNary-Haugen bill. They were against this bill because they felt that the Biological Survey which now sets bag limits was i.e better position than Congress to know what was best for U. S. birds. The Biological Survey has a staff of scientists who do nothing but study bird conditions...