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Word: pocketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modesty is always desirable; the truly great invariably seem to possess it. We admire the old athlete who keeps his golden emblems in his pocket or at home, rather than dangling from his watch-chain. Which reminds one--have you ever seen a P.B.K. man with a wrist watch? Echo answers 'Watch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMMODESTY OF PHI BETA KAPPA MEN WEARING KEYS IS FLOUTED BY MARTIN | 6/1/1928 | See Source »

...action" thus cryptically threatened was understood to be the blockading by battleships Warspite and Valiant of the customs offices at Alexandria and Port Said, from which the Egyptian Government derives a major portion of its revenue. Faced with such a threat-to-pocket, Prime Minister Nahass Pasha yielded inevitably, but sought to save the face of Egypt by promising merely that action upon the Public Assemblies Bill would be "postponed." To this equivocal capitulation His Britannic Majesty's Government sternly replied that they "would again be obliged to intervene ... if ... the Public Assemblies Bill were to be revived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: British Bullying | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...dollar bill was discovered tucked away in the pocket of an old tuxedo, and though those in charge have been striving tirelessly to discover the owner and have found any number of candidates, they can find no one able to identify the bill definitely. A brand new suit was unearthed from the pile, but before it could be spirited away by an aspiring colector, a student, showing sings of much gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair, burst into the building and carried off the garment in triumph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pianola Rolls, Lampoons, Ten Dollar Bill, Telephone Directory, New Suit-All Taken in P. B. H. Clothes Drive | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

Second-"In my pocket? How do you mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Tate for White | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

First-"Haven't you got something signed by the Treasurer of the United States in your pocket? I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Tate for White | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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