Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leewards' working folk, whose income averages some $50 a year, liked Lord Baldwin fine. He plumped for unemployment insurance, hospitals and new industries. He dug deep into his own pocket to provide schooling for native children, and spent ?150 ($600) to bring a water-diviner from Jamaica to find wells on the parched islands. He told the Antigua legislature: "Being the only governor you've had who's been in prison [he was twice captured, once by the Turks and once by the Bolsheviks, while fighting as a volunteer for the Armenians in 1921], I naturally take...
...every man to his own taste. - Did not Dr. Kunastrokius, that great man, at his leisure hours, take the greatest delight imaginable in combing of asses' tails, and plucking the dead hairs out with his teeth, though he had tweezers always in his pocket? ... De gustibus non est disputandum" - Laurence Sterne, in Tristram Shandy As far as many U.S. citizens are concerned, biting asses' tails, as a leisure occupation, is not much more inexplicable than a lively taste for modern art, especially if it is abstractionist art. What's more - as Washington's Corcoran Gallery...
...influence as a public official seemed well established. Aramco brought out that when Moffett was housing administrator in 1934-35, he had asked Standard of California to take him off its payroll as vice president, but had later demanded $100,000 (and got $25,000) for "out-of-pocket" expenses while away. He wrote Standard: "I was really doing more work ... for the Standard Oil Co. than if I had remained in the office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza." In another letter, he took credit for the quashing of antitrust indictments in 1934 against Standard of California. Excerpt: "The Attorney General...
...small part to a continuous campaign of vilification of the North, conducted in the Republic south of the border. "How can I hold out the hand of friendship [to Eire] when [she has] a dagger in one hand, a pistol in the other, and a jemmy in her pocket?" complained the North's Prime
...McInnis said it. Although Athletic Director Bill Bingham said he looked like a bank president when he first walked into the HAA office last September, McInnis is anything but an executive when he puts on a pair of spikes and a sweat-suit, tucks a baseball in his hip pocket, and walks into Briggs Cage...