Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whose Wife Will Say . . ." A fair answer would be: probably a great deal. During Milan's disorders last month (when partisans occupied the local prefecture for a menacing 24 hours), some 200 men wearing civilian clothes bulging slightly at the hip pocket had kept guard in the streets near the Catholic daily newspaper Italia. They were members of north Italy's Catholic underground militia, Avanguardisti Cattolici-Catholic Vanguardists. Milanese called it simply...
...likely figure for the consort's annual allowance. Joseph Hume, the radical member for Kilkenny, thought it was too much. "Are you aware," he asked his Tory colleagues, "of the danger of setting a young man down in London with so much money in his pocket?" The House of Commons took a vote and decided that ?40,000 a year was ample for Victoria's Prince Albert...
Stanley inherited from his father Alfred the thriving steel works of Baldwins, Ltd., a directorship of the Great Western Railway, and the pocket borough of Bewdley in Worcestershire. He made little impression at school or Varsity, or in the House of Commons. After seven years in Parliament he was feeling useless and ready to quit. But his wife, Lucy Ridsdale (with whom he had fallen in love as he watched her bowl in a cricket match), urged him to stick it out three more years...
...used to be mother & father who read to the kids. Now any parent with a phonograph in his home and money in his pocket can have the reading done for him by a professional. There were never so many children's records to choose from. Among the new standouts: Danny Kaye's version of a children's favorite, Tubby the Tuba (Decca); a new volume in Capitol's Bozo the Clown series; Peter Lind Hayes' Genie, the Magic Record (Decca); Sterling Holloway's Uncle Remus Stories (Decca); The Little Engine That Could (Victor); Dinah...
Wilman worked calmly. He is what the trade calls a "spot bowler." Starting from the right of the alley, he takes four precise steps and fires for the one-three pocket. He once had one three-game score of 811. But this time he could not shake off Andy. The lead changed hands 14 times...