Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crimson affair, and carefully knotted it between button-down collars. "Mustn't forget the other thing either," he said to no one in particular, and reaching tenderly into the towel and sheet drawer, he came up triumphantly with a pint of whiskey. He eased this into the left hand pocket of the coat with the mousy fur collar. "All set," said...
...comedians needs convincing I'd suggest [he] dig up the writings of 'Kin' Hubbard, the oldtime [Indianapolis News] columnist, [who] said almost 40 years ago: ¶ 'The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket...
...next March. Hope Records is now spending $25,000 to make recordings from Hope broadcasts. Hope's income from the broadcasts, $10,000 a week, along with money from his other noncorporate activities-part ownership of the Cleveland Indians, two pictures yearly with Paramount, etc.-goes into his pocket and is taxable at the personal income rate. The profits in his corporations are taxable at a lower corporate rate...
There were also tragedies. The Hokah (Minn.) Chief reported: "The body of Wencil Beranek, 65, was found in a creek three and a half miles east of Waldorf. It was on its back and eyeglasses were still in place. Two pennies were found in a pocket." And the Jasper County (Ind.) Democrat recorded: "Irene, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Neeley, passed away at the Riley Hospital. She had been a patient for the past four years suffering with a heart ailment...
Safe Deposit. In Barranquilla, Colombia, Señora Juan Bores complained to police that her husband gave her no money for food, added that she could never rifle his pocket because he kept a snake...