Word: pocketbook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concerns have sought him as their publicity man. He has offers that would make him a millionaire. His friends tell him (here a straightening of his slim shoulders) that he is as popular as Edward of Wales. . . . Really, he has not decided yet between his party and his pocketbook...
...average New York voter bothers himself but little as to the manner in which his city is governed. The sins of an administration fail to register, except as dollars and cents out of his pocketbook. Graft of $100,000 was lately uncovered in the County Clerk's office. No public outcry followed. A favored group, through special fire regulations, controlled the sale of tank trucks for gasoline distribution in the city. Even the charge that this monopoly had chiseled $2,500,000 from the public left the voters cold. Arnold Rothstein, famed gambler, was murdered last autumn (TIME...
...products, the parallelism is nearly perfect. Each organization can offer a car for every pocketbook. Balancing General Motors, Chrysler has "everything except an icebox...
...purchase an automobile. Together they drove to St. Germain. Then in a solitary, romantic spot the gigolo suddenly stopped the car. But he made no romantic overtures. Instead, he brusquely demanded all her jewels and money. Mrs. Neumann refused. The gigolo grasped her throat, snatched her rings and pocketbook, tore her clothes, beat her, threw her out of the automobile. As Mrs. Neumann started to walk back to Paris she distinctly heard a laugh as the gigolo's automobile disappeared in the shade of the St. Germain woods...
That, at least, is where he put it last week when he slept at a hotel in Lincoln, Neb. In the morning, the pocketbook was still there but Senator Borah's money, some $400, was gone. Gone too was some $300 which Senator Borah's secretary Sam Jones, had left in the pockets of his clothes. A just man, Senator Borah said: "I want it understood that we attach no responsibility for the loss to the State of Nebraska nor to the welcoming committee...