Word: pocket-book
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...snort, and the blast made Alice shiver. "My dear, this demand and supply you talk about is nonsense. If you don't stop reading books, you will always talk like this. I only know that I want something, and if I have enough money in my pocket-book I go down to the store to buy it. And if the store doesn't have what I want, I take my money and go home again with-out what I came for. These book-writers mix things up very sadly indeed...
...time being the Student Vagabond's much abused conscience cooperating with his pocket-book requires, nay, demands a little longer dalliance in his Lowell House construction shack...
...American provincialism which cannot see before its nose, or rather beyond the narrow limits of the Atlantic and the Paciffe. The necessity for international point of view toward and understanding of the world problems has heretofore has little appeal to the unidealistic American. When expressed-in terms of the pocket-book it may be driven home, even to Mr. Borah...
...perpetrator of Claverly's most recent robbery was seen by a visitor, spending the night in Room 43, at 3.30 yesterday morning in the process of emptying a pocket-book of its contents. The visitor however, believed the thief to be a friend hunting for cigarettes...
...there is scarcely any undergraduate at the University who is forced to financial circumstances to forego all other advantages for the sake of the lower rate. The one suggestion left to make is that the way to the undergraduate's heart lies rather through his palate than through his pocket-book: It would seem wise to try the experiment of raising the rates high enough to furnish excellent food--food that is better than that of the average Cambridge restaurant--at the same time liberalizing the conditions of signing up for board. All this will never succeed in bringing...