Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...full bloom, but since it has backed around the corner, ideas have changed, and today, Professor Hooton thinks, more and more sons are being urged to study Philosophy, History, and the classics. The idea seems to be that a full brain is a more dependable thing than a full pocketbook...
Whatever business support the Administration may have lost, political observers agreed last week that the great bulk of the U. S. voters were, if not in heart and soul at least in pocketbook, ardently in favor of the New Deal. Henry Prather Fletcher and all good Republicans hoped that there would be many surprises in the election returns. Any unexpected result on Nov. 6 was bound to be in their favor...
When Dr. Frank Baskerville Bull of Gardiner, Me. went to Boston last week to attend the convention of the American College of Surgeons, he prudently put a pocketbook containing $28 in one hip pocket, another pocketbook containing $8 in the other hip pocket. When in due course a Boston holdup man accosted Dr. Bull in a restaurant. Dr. Bull, flustered, handed over the $28 pocketbook...
...taxes which are collected in the last analysis from the Forgotten Man, Relief is being given to large capitalists through Reconstruction Finance Corporation Loans with the hope that they will seep down to the Forgotten Man. But instead his savings are steadily being drained out of his fast-shrinking pocketbook, in an attempt to revive Big Business. Thus far this attempt has proved unsuccessful. The very bread he eats three times a day is being taxed. The Forgotten Man must be remembered...