bag lady
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Anne Meara was the talk of the town in the role of a bag lady who spurned the self-congratulatory charity of guilty swells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
Ms. Komar said: “That she was seen as some kind of bag lady, that her art gets overshadowed by those stories, makes us angry.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
“I thought I would be a bag lady 10 years from now saying, ‘Hey, I invented those,’ ” Ms. Revson told The Post in 1995.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
The film, which takes place over 24 hours, features a number of illustrious names in fleeting cameos, including Dame Judi Dench as a bag lady, as well as Bernard Cribbins and Richard Briers.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2014
With a slight push, a slip over some ill-defined edge, I could turn into a bag lady.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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