Word: pocketfull
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Marshall Field, who has money to burn, was in a buying mood again. Last week, jingling a pocketful of change, he went shopping for a second Chicago newspaper. He put a $5,339,000 check in the bank and invited the 488 stockholders of the tabloid Chicago Times to come...
Sometimes you didn't even have to pay extra. In towns where toilet paper was short it was only necessary to haunt hotel washrooms to get a pocketful of the stuff. Housewives in New York's suburban Westchester County maintained espionage networks, reporting to each other the arrival...
Sing a song of privilege, A pocketful of rank. Kick and beat the G.I.s Make 'em walk the plank.
¶ Henry de Montherlant, arrogant, aristocratic novelist, enraged patriotic Frenchmen with his book Solstice de Juin, turned up for the opening of his new play, Reine Morte, with a bust of himself under his arm and a pocketful of medals struck with his profile. All Montherlant plays have been banned...
Scorcher. In St. Louis, Clarence Brown Jr. was hospitalized and treated for burns after being hit by a line drive in a sand-lot baseball game. The batter had scored a bulls-eye on a pocketful of stick matches.