Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More Than a Soldier. After Sun Yat-sen's death in 1925, Chiang, leading the Kuomintang army, resolved to break out of the Canton pocket and overthrow the government at Peking. The Nationalist revolution rolled north, defeating one warlord after another. In the Northern Expedition, one of the great military exploits of the century, Chiang showed himself much more than a soldier. Skillfully, he played one warlord off against another. He won the confidence of the commercial class, traditionally distrustful of soldiers; the bankers backed Chiang-as the stabilizing force in China. In July 1928, Chiang triumphantly entered Peking...
...stolen keys and an empty pocket book strewn through the Old Burying Ground of the First Unitarian Church were the only clues yesterday in the search for the uncaught prowler who terrorized two Radcliffe houses late Thursday night...
...pocket book and keys found among the gravestones disappeared from Founder's House during the intruder's invasion shortly before midnight Thursday. They were the property of Marllyn A. Leathers '48 1G, who first spotted...
...campaign Beck waged to ingratiate himself with eastern Washington farmers: "For a while, everybody in the Teamsters' Hall had to have an apple in his mouth. Next year Dave had trouble organizing the apple sheds and you were canned if they found a seed in your pocket...
Paramount was slightly embarrassed by its sudden success: Buttons and Bows might be as cold as Constantinople by the time the movie is released at Christmas. But Tunesmiths Evans & Livingston hope to pocket $20,000 apiece from it. They have written another tune, My Own True Love, which they expect to be a hit, too, though the public has yet to hear it. That one, say Evans & Livingston, is "a sort of present-day I Love You Truly. You know, you can sing it in church...