Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This rare use of a selective kind of "vest-pocket veto" was apt to ruffle the feelings of many a Congressman, since the House had voted 305 to 1 for the ten extra air groups. But a majority of the Senate was on the President's side and had only reluctantly agreed to the House increase to speed adjournment...
...Fairbanks to be tested. Next day a plane brought copies of the Fairbanks News-Miner with a sad story. All but two of the nuggets were brass. And the two (total worth: $2) were worn, as if they had been carried for a long time in a poke or pocket...
...generals permitted the prosecution wide latitude. Much testimony was based on opinion and hearsay, two or three times removed. The prosecution showed a U.S. -propaganda film, Orders from Tokyo, in which a G.I. pulled a piece of paper from the pocket of a slain Japanese soldier, while the soundtrack intoned: "Orders from Tokyo. We have discovered the secret orders to destroy Manila." In fact, no such orders were ever found, as the defense demonstrated...
...Circus Manager Alexandre Bouglione as Steinmann prepared to enter the cage. A breathless girl in black rushed up to wish the trainer bonne chance. "This," shouted the lawyer for the defense, "is all irrelevant," but nobody paid any attention. A court bailiff pulled a green dossier from his overcoat pocket and settled down to take notes...
They were playing only three nights a week; schoolwork kept them from doing more. Since July they had been packing fans into Van Nuys' elaborate, teenagers' Ciro's, the Dri-Nite Club, and making more than pocket money doing it (about $45 a week). By last week, they had spread out to playing one-nighters here & there, for fraternity dances and Hollywood high-lifers such as Columnist Jimmy Fidler. But the surest sign that they were really arriving was the hushed way the fans listened when the boys sat in with jazzbos like Drummer Zutty Singleton...