Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical TIME-reading man* you spend 7½ minutes a day shaving, using a statistical 78.8 strokes. You usually have about $30.50 in your pocket. You carry six keys, and use all but one of them...
...this point Igor Stravinsky stood up, stuffed his black cigarette holder in his pocket, jammed his shapeless little hat on his head, and stalked from the office. That ended the negotiations...
Money is neither an object nor an obstacle at Landhaven. Those who can afford it pay the full $1,650 a year. For others, Millen has not only written off the tuition altogether, but provided clothes, books and pocket money. But every Landhavener must pass a Stanford-Binet test with a "gifted" rating: the average I.Q. for the group entering this fall...
When he came to Philadelphia last week, he had in his pocket the almost certain votes of some 350 delegates. To win, he needed 200 more. That was the last salient. He was ready to take...
...little like an eyewitness account by a visitor from Mars who had read a guidebook before coming. Pink-faced, bushy-browed Westbrook Pegler, stoutly filling a grey suit, chatted amiably with his dandiacal little ex-boss, publisher Roy Howard, who wore his familiar matching shirt, bow tie and breast-pocket handkerchief. Cartoonist David Low, looking just like his self-caricatures, but larger, made quick reminders of the shape of a jowl, the outline of a room, for later use, and was convinced that a U.S. convention provided too much circus and too little bread...