Word: pocketbook
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...cheek. But his mother was still inside, a splinter of wood from the top driven four inches into her brain as a result of son's taking a greasy curve a little too fast. No blood-no horribly twisted bones-just a gray-haired corpse still clutching her pocketbook in her lap as she had clutched it when she felt the car leave the road...
Dauffe Hair Remover Pocketbook Panic. . . . .Talon Fastener
...promised to protect and preserve industry, stocks & bonds, homes, husbands, etc. It promised to oppose "unsound" legislation. "Few people realize," it said, "that women own 70% of the wealth of this country; 80% of the insurance policies now in effect. . . . It is the women who guard the family pocketbook, and the women now have decided to guard the nation's pocketbook...
Said Chairman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt of the Whist Club's Committee on Rules: "These new figures are not as nearly in accord with the laws of chance as were the old, but the change was made to protect the pocketbook of the loser...
German comedian. His enormous Gladstone collars generally have the patina of an ancient manuscript. He hates beds and regular meals, cooks what he wants when he is hungry and sleeps on the attic floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...