Word: pocketbooks
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Gradually the jitters passed. Somehow, the girls managed to sort out their bags, then moved on to the waiting taxis. Only one had to run back for her pocketbook...
...Little Judy relaxed. Her defense rested on this story: her pocketbook happened to be crammed with FBI secret papers on March 4, when she was arrested in New York, because she was going to study them for a civil service examination; some of the papers were her own notes for a novel she was going to write; she had made the tryst that winter night with Valentin Gubichev, Russian engineer employee of U.N., because she was in love with him and not for any purposes of espionage. Kelley questioned her about a previous meeting she had had with Gubichev...
...real endowment. If anybody doesn't have a million dollars but would like to put a smaller sum to good use, perhaps they'd like to endow the library or the chair of English literature. We'd be happy to make the namesake fit their pocketbook...
Theft of about $60 from first-floor residents of Radcliffe's 20 Walker St. was discovered yesterday morning when girls and the housekeeper, Miss Edith Annin, reported missing wallets and pocketbook money. Girls claimed that the thief must have entered the house during the dinner hour Thursday...
Miss Drohan identified Gallagher as the man who followed her off a street car, chased her down Massachusetts ave., and attacked her in the driveway of her home. She testified she offered him her pocketbook, thinking he planned to rob her, but he threw her to the ground. Her screams attracted neighbors and frightened him away, she told the court...