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Word: pocketbooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father of oarsman Howard Turner '40 was so interested in the new machine that he leaned over too much in an attempt to see the intricacies of the streamlined motor. His pocketbook dropped into the water, went sailing through the complicated machinery, and came out the other end unscathed. All the bills were recovered, just slightly the worse for the experience...

Author: By Harry Hammond, | Title: New Tank Draws 90 Oarsmen Daily To Newell for Pre - Season Training | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...headache powder in the form of a big foreign loan. Most likely place to get it is in London and observers believe that when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sees his cherished Anglo-Italian pact go into effect with the withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain, the British pocketbook will be invitingly opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Harvest and Headaches | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...time he laid down his arms on Austria's Italian front. It was then, as Dr. Schuschnigg has bitterly complained in his memoirs, that some Scottish soldiers who had been aiding the Italians took not only his rifle and ammunition but also his watch, his ring and his pocketbook. After this he never again felt the same about Protestants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Austria Is Finished | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Both pocketbook and unancestral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critic Finds 'Sound Supplants Sense' in Work of Hillyer, Boylston Professor | 1/21/1938 | See Source »

...precisely 7:45 o'clock last evening an unidentified marauder threw four bricks wrapped in an oil-soaked rag through a side window of a house at 22 Plympton Street, and removed therefrom a lady's pocketbook containing $20 in checks and $10 in cash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURSE-SNATCHER GETS HIS PURSE BY THROWING BRICKS | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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