Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American workingman that the Democratic party will not do a single thing that will take from his weekly pay envelope a 5-cent piece. To the American farmer I say that the Democratic party will do everything in its power to put back into his pocket all that belongs there. And we further say that nothing will be done that will embarrass or interfere in any way with the legitimate progress of business?big or small...
...other for coal. Coal & clothes were sometimes mixed and perhaps, sitting on the chaste Grecian steps of Manning Hall discussing the lectures of loved Latin Professor John L. Lincoln with his classmate & fraternity brother, Charles Evans Hughes, he would absently pluck a bit of black dust from waistcoat pocket. No. 12 Hope College is now inhabited by blackamoors, being in the heart of Brown's Harlem...
...Westminster, Md., Senator Bruce of Maryland bumbled to an audience that Nominee Hoover had "taken numerous drinks with Clarence Darrow, noted criminal lawyer"; that Nominee Curtis had been seen "at Pimlico racetrack with a bottle of liquor in his pocket." The Darrow canard, stale and previously denied (TIME, March 5), was promptly denied again by Lawyer Darrow...
...derby tells you that at once. And as you follow down you find a starched blue collar on shirt to match. Tie of sombre hue, is neatly in place with an exceedingly small knot over the pin. Vest is in prominent display, and thin gold chain stretches from upper pocket to upper pocket with a slight dip. Breast pocket display cousists of corner of handkerchief with tiny monogram. Perfect crease leads the eye down to slightly wide cuffs breaking on over polished shoes. If it were but slightly colder, an immaculate Chesterfield would add the final touch...
Rara avis....what he would call "all interesting piece of neckwear" piece of neckwear" flows.... sport shirt.... loose coat as liable not to match the lower half.... cigarette holder...corner of handkerchief protruding from lower coat pocket.... the eye goes down the full length and then back up, finally resting where it began, on the long locks in pompadour, slightly out of alignment...