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Gathergold, was close at hand, but the poet, with his carpetbag on his arm, inquired at once where Ernest dwelt, and was resolved to be accepted as his guest.

Keats said it first, but it was Mary Poppins, being practically perfect in every way, who found the right occasion for it, shortly after pulling an improbably large houseplant out of her carpetbag. She could have been speaking of the 1964 movie that bore her name.

Reconstruction was viewed as a catastrophic error, a period of corrupt carpetbag politicians and illiterate black legislators, presided over by the draconian rule of U.S.

A May 2019 plebiscite would force the Speaker to carpetbag his way to a new district such as Siargao.

The state placed a plaque at the site in 1950: The "Colfax Riot," it explains, "marked the end of carpetbag misrule in the South."

The synergy between the two wasn't merely artistic: Parris-Bailey's Knoxville, Tenn.-based ensemble, the Carpetbag Theatre, has been rooted in community storytelling since its founding in 1969; Assaf, through Art2Action, combines her work as an artist and presenter with strong community-embedded programming.

sets her carpetbag on a table and removes a full-size hat stand, a wall

She doesn't fly in with a carpetbag and a parrot umbrella, but Kathryn Mewes is practically perfect at solving family problems.

Warner in his book Generals in Gray Walthall "resumed his law practice and became a leader in the movement to overthrow the [very corrupt] carpetbag regime." With the accomplishment of this goal he was elected to represent all Mississippians in the United States Senate, where he served until his death in Washington, D.C., on April 21, 1898.

Thank goodness for the mother's sister, who breezes in, looking rather like the Wicked Witch of the East (and not at all like Julie Andrews) with her umbrella and carpetbag to save the day.

Several of Friesen's humorous but folksy scenes include the description of a Mennonite mother from Paraguay bragging that her son ate at least a loaf of bread a day, as though that were something of an accomplishment (91); a mother reprimanding her daughter with, "Now why don't we see whether or not you can master something you actually need to know?" (95), when the latter boasted about having witnessed a calf being born; and Friesen's description of Aunt Gutherie, a conservative spinster, "[W]ith an enormous carpetbag and hair wound so tightly into a bun that it made her face look as though it was being tightened by a screw at the back of her head" (191).

(27) Cretinetti, however, finally evades his creditors by vanishing in and out of a magic carpetbag for a climactic variant on that distinctive genre of early film--the comic chase.