Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that heads and right hands are not easy to come by. The latter I reluctantly left in one of his well-designed automobile interiors, caught between the arm rest and window handle, one balmy summer day. The head, which I fortunately salvaged, I still carry around in my pocket. It was removed at the request of the driver, who could not see out of the rear window through the rear-view mirror. I am writing this left-handed from the hip. W. S. SHERMAN Chicago...
...rights. She had money. With the judge's help, she had even wangled a letter of introduction to U.S. consular officials from Secretary of State Cordell Hull. But she was overwhelmed by red tape all over again, came home without Adolf and with only three dollars in her pocket...
...friendly "nice guy." He is genuinely modest about holding practically all the top posts in his profession ("They shoved me up there"). He takes his job of promoting psychiatry as seriously as if he were a Midwestern drummer selling widgets; he used to carry in his pocket a little black book full of jokes and limericks, ready for impromptu speeches at medical dinners. (He lost it moving from Washington to Topeka after...
Subsequent productions will be "Heart break House" by George Bernard Shaw, "Noah" by Andre Obey, "The Showoff" by George Kelly and "sunrise in My Pocket," a new play by Edwin Justus Mayer...
From there on, the delegates tried to outdo each other in expressions of fealty. They decided that his birthday, Feb. 12, should be a holiday† in the soft-coal fields. They learned that John L. had not paid his $30,000 contempt fines out of his own pocket but out of the union's till, and voted retroactive approval of that. John had merely to suggest that the U.M.W.'s $13 million bankroll ought to be bolstered so that he could have more "available funds in a crisis." With audible grumbles, the delegates voted to boost their...