Pad & Quill's Gladstone bag has all the right organizational pockets.
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It's the Berkshire Hathaway model, a corporate Gladstone bag where Geico and NetJets and See's Candies are happily stuffed inside.
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It was a gloriously wonky Gladstone bag of positions on issues batted around at think tanks, on digital democracy panels, and in Susan Crawford's Backchannel columns—almost a K-Tel Records version of tech policy's greatest hits.
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The 2178,21 items recovered from two miles below the surface in international waters off Newfoundland are remnants of a gilded era: a bowler hat, the crusty leather folds of a once-sumptuous Gladstone bag and the dark, sleek curves of a bronze angel that graced the post of a staircase.
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A 16-inch Gladstone bag made of ox leather A Gladstone bag is a small portmanteau suitcase built over a rigid frame which could separate into two equal sections. Unlike a suitcase, a Gladstone bag is "deeper in proportion to its length." Gladstones are typically made of stiff leather and often belted with lanyards. The bags are named after William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898), the four-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Behind the scenes, she was packing the dismembered remains into a black Gladstone bag and a corded wooden bonnet-box. She was unable to fit the murdered woman's head and one of the feet into the containers and disposed of them separately, throwing the foot onto a rubbish heap in Twickenham. The head was buried under the Hole in the Wall's stables a short distance from Thomas's house, where it was found 131 years later. On 4 March, Webster travelled to Hammersmith to see her old neighbours the Porters, whom she had not seen for six years, wearing Thomas's silk dress and carrying the Gladstone bag which she had filled with some of the remains.
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London: Thames & Hudson, pp. 152–159. In 1927, Snowman acquired about 80 items that had been sold in Paris by the Soviets. The Times commented pointedly that the "haul" could "be comfortably stowed away in a Gladstone bag" and that these were "things which the owners would have handled and treasured as personal belongings."Russian Jewels.
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A Gladstone bag, a light travelling bag, is named after him.The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad, , on notes of chapter IX, at p. 256. Gladstone's burial in 1898 was commemorated in a poem by William McGonagall. There is a scene in the Turkish film Free Man about Islamic scholar Said Nursi who is deeply troubled by Gladstone.
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It is several days after the disappearance; but on that day Mrs. St. Clair had received a letter from her husband in his own handwriting, with his wedding ring enclosed, telling her not to worry. This forces Holmes to reconsider his conclusions, leading him eventually to an extraordinary solution. Holmes and Watson go the police station where Hugh Boone is held; Holmes brings a bath sponge in a Gladstone bag.
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Hinged luggage was first developed in the mid 19th century. One of the first recorded official documentations of the Gladstone bag is a British patent registered by Edward Cole. Edward Cole was a leather case maker based at No. 9 Hemmings Row, City of Westminster. The patent for "An Improvement In The Frames Of Traveling Bags" was registered by Edward Cole on 4 February 1854 and sealed 14 July 1854.
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Presenting the ticket to Beard, the two travelled to Waterloo station to inspect the Gladstone bag which, although locked, was observed to contain a large knife and bloodstained cloth. Beard persuaded Jessie to return the ticket to her husband's suit, before contacting Scotland Yard to report his discovery. An Inspector Percy Savage extracted a small sample of cloth from the bag to undergo forensic analysis. The analysis of this sample revealed the stains to be human blood.
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When he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gladstone used a red box to carry his 1853 Budget Speech to Parliament. The travelling case to which his name is now attached was not patented until the following year. It has a frame with an opening top, rather than the book-type opening on a spine featured on the red box. By the end of the 19th century, the Gladstone bag had been adopted by doctors to carry their medical equipment.
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Briefcases are descendants of the limp satchel used in the fourteenth century for carrying money and valuables. It was called a "budget", derived from the Latin word "bulga" or Irish word "bolg", both meaning leather bag (in Irish it also means 'stomach'), and also the source of the financial term "budget". Godillot of Paris was the first to use a hinged iron frame on a carpet bag in 1826. There then followed the Gladstone bag and the Rosebery, an oval-top bag.
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Don DeFore and Lizabeth Scott Jane and Alan Palmer are driving to a party in the Hollywood Hills when someone in another car throws a Gladstone bag into the back seat of their convertible. They open it and discover bundles of cash. With Jane at the wheel, they are chased by another car driven, Alan deduces, by the person who was supposed to receive the money. Jane drives recklessly, making a high speed turn and zig-zagging on the difficult road.
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Willingdon's assistant Lane (Hugh Cross) is recruited to help and they return to London to search for him. Willingdon, carrying his bomb in a Gladstone bag, finds lodgings with Mrs Peckitt (Joan Hickson), but spooks her with his constant pacing around his room during the night. The following morning, he leaves early and, seeing a 'wanted' poster with his face, disguises himself with a new coat and having his moustache shaved off. Folland's team plan for the worst and get Cabinet approval to evacuate London.
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In addition you having named new species himself, a species of eucalypt is named after him; Eucalyptus willisii. Following Willis' death in 1995, from 1996 onwards, the National Herbarium of Victoria has hosted the Jim Willis Studentship in his honour. This is a competitive eight week programme held during the summer where students gain research experience working on a specific research project under the supervision of a herbarium research staff member. In 2000, the Gladstone Bag belonging to Willis used to collect specimens on his many field expeditions was uncovered in extraordinary circumstances.
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This original patent is still held by Cole Brothers of England in their archive. The business of Edward Cole was taken over and run by two of his sons James and Edward at the end of the 19th Century and subsequently changed to Cole Brothers in 1907, being located at 24a Floral Street, Covent Garden after the earlier demolition of the Hemmings Row site in 1886 to make way for the extension to the National Gallery. The Gladstone bag should not be confused with the attaché case-styled red box (also called a dispatch box or ministerial box) which is issued to British Cabinet ministers to carry official paperwork. Red boxes are made by Barrow Hepburn & Gale, and the pattern of the two styles is totally different.
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The Casebook of Forensic Detection p. 181 According to Mahon, for "several hours", he unsuccessfully attempted to revive Kaye before opting to dismember her body with a blunt knife already present at the bungalow.The Casebook of Forensic Detection p. 182 He then claimed to have purchased the chef's knife and tenon saw in London before returning to Officer's House where, on 20 April, he had begun to dismember and dispose of Kaye's body. Mahon claimed to have ultimately decided to dispose of the dissected portions by discarding them through the windows of railway carriages, and had successfully disposed of some sections Kaye's legs in this manner on 1 May. He had intended to dispose of the contents of his gladstone bag in the same manner when arrested at Waterloo station that morning.
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