Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, U. S. soldiers made pocket money selling fountain pens to the Italians. Now the tables are turned. The streets are full of small boys selling cheap fountain pens called "Parker 51," which they manage to pronounce enough enough like "Parker 51" to make gullible Americans think they've found a bargain...
...gadget for increasing the hearing range of people with normal hearing. It might also do for eavesdroppers what binoculars have done for Peeping Toms. The "Opeara Glass" was invented by Aurex' Walter H. Huth. The little whisper-catcher is an inconspicuous cylinder which can be concealed in a pocket and raised to the ear at interesting moments. Inside is a complete battery-powered amplifying system capable of boosting a lovers'-lane murmur into clear-voiced dialogue. Inventor Huth primly suggests that his little tattler will be useful for, among other things, 1) listening to sermons, and 2) helping...
...little four-phrase tune, and then ring twice. That for the kickoff. The next swallow was easier. He reached a glass out of the bookcase, filled it half-full, and gulped it down. This was better, and he repeated the process. Then he thought of the tickets in his pocket. Vag paused for a moment, watching a leaf spiral down past his window, then ran for the closet and grabbed his coat. He sprinted down the stairs and started across the quad, running easily, with the bottle carefully cradled in one hand. It could have the extra seat. This...
...gambler tries to get the hero to toss the championship fight, and stuffs money in his coat pocket to urge him on, but the hero spurns him. On the big night at the Garden the hero is down on the canvas when he sees the gambler at the ringside grimacing at him to quit. This burns him so much that he leaps up and wins the fight, like that. Soon after, the gambler's goons throw the hero into the Hudson River, but he survives and goes to live in Germany...
...career morbidly fearful of poverty. To avoid sudden bankruptcy, he developed the habit of starting small bank accounts all over the U.S.; at one time he had 700 of them. Once Gene Fowler saw an eye-filling roll of bills, $4,000 worth, in Fields's pocket. Asked what the money was for, Fields answered in a tone that closed the discussion, "It's getaway money...