Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escaped. Over the side plunged six-year-old Joan in its wake, swam faster and faster from the schooner, while her father bellowed orders, and the mate lowered the dinghy. The oarsmen finally caught her, but not before she had captured the anemone and thrust it in her overalls pocket. Back on board, she was more distressed by her dead sea-horse than by the rope-end tanning administered by the captain. Mathematics she learned "helping" her father work out his navigation problems. Reading she learned from an intermittent encyclopedia and the Bible. Not the least of her laboratory experiments...
...following article on the Pocket Veto case which is at present being argued before the Supreme Court was written for the Crimson by Professor Charles Fairman A.M. '15, Lecturer on Government...
When is a "pocket veto" not a veto? is the question which the suit of the Okanogan Indians now presents for the first time to the Supreme Court. The issue thus raised has aroused interest rather from its novelty than from its intrinsic importance. A practice sanctioned by more than a century of usage now awaits authoritative interpretation by the court of last resort. If this is not enough to explain the CRIMSON's interest in the subject, then perhaps judicial cognizance might be taken of the fact that aspirants for editorial advancement are prone to secure copy by means...
...Democratic campaign deficit is considered, a solution presents itself. New York is notable for huge parades at the slightest provocation. Lead by bands of leaders grinding out from hurdy-gurdies the strains of "Sidewalks of New York", a Democratic parade might certainly bestir sympathetic bystanders to sacrifice their pocket change. Such a method might overcome any financial difficulties of the party and insure Democratic forcasts for 1932, which are now overdue...
Where's my check? I always keep it in the left pocket. It's easy to find then. Must have dropped it. Sure, here...