Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would rouse himself, get to his feet and give them that look of the eagles-lofty and over their heads you know. But he'd let me push him or pull him around. Of course there was a little cupboard love involved-I always had something in my pocket...
...little Coronet had grown, bragged smart Publisher David Smart last year, was simply terrific. From, a prewar circulation of 120,000, his precocious, pocket-sized monthly† had, he said, soared to 4,000,000 a month. That put Coronet among the four biggest magazines...
Memories. Outside of the heat, the biggest single topic of conversation was so old last week that it hardly got into the headlines at all. That was the price of things. People did talk about prices in astonished and belligerent tones, like a New Yorker reporting that his pocket had been picked in Kalamazoo, Mich. Many swore they had done better on lower wages before...
Hedda's Whoppers. It has been suggested that, for all Hedda's slash & dash, her wild but indisputable charm and her whizzing success at her job, the head beneath the hats is something of an air pocket. In her very first column, she perpetrated a lulu to the effect that Greta Garbo, who was soon, she said, to marry Leopold Stokowski, had undergone inspection by Stokowski's patrician Philadelphia relatives. Stokowski has no patrician Philadelphia relatives. A rudimentary instinct for checking sources would have spared Hedda that blooper...
...other hand, the American Meat Institute saw "no drastic effect on meat supplies or prices." Nevertheless, top grade beef in Chicago rose to $30.50 a cwt., highest since last January. Not till all the crops were in would the consumer know how things would be with his pocket book...