Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against invasion by "Mayor" Negley. When "Mayor" Negley arrived in the morning, he found that "Mayor" Holmes had gone out for breakfast after an early morning vigil. Mrs. Holmes sat in her husband's chair, jealously immovable. "Mayor" Negley eyed her dubiously and loitered around the office. In his pocket he had a court injunction, temporarily restraining "Mayor" Holmes from functioning...
Trial. The case opened with M. Schwartzbard telling the court in a high pitched voice and halting French, his beady eyes gleaming, his face suffused with joy, how he had tracked Petlura down. With a photograph of his intended victim in his pocket and a loaded pistol in another, he was wont to roam the street peering into the faces of passers-by to see if they were Petlura. All this, he said, he did to avenge the assassinations of his coreligionists. Finally, he found and killed...
...night of the murder a samovar of tea and a chocolate cake were placed on a small table. Dr. Lazovert, one of the conspirators, took some crystals of cyanide of potassium out of his pocket, crushed them, removed layers of the cake, sprinkled the poison, replaced the layers. The scene...
Recalled by his government at the request of France, Christian Rakovsky, onetime Soviet Ambassador to France, sneaked away from Paris at the crack of dawn for Moscow. In his pocket was his letter of recall, which he was supposed to present, amid polite, if cool, verbosity, to President Gaston Doumergue. But M. Rakovsky did not bother to go near the Elysée Palace, where the President lives, and in order to avoid all farewells, friendly and hostile, he left in an apparent "huff" in an automobile, disappointing many people who went to see him off at the Gare...
Some deposits which are apparently rich and deep prove to be only a thin layer of profitable ore over worthless rock. Electrical instruments are being devised to register not only the presence of metals, but the extent of the ore pocket, and so prevent wasted efforts. Metals have a decided influence upon delicate electrical mechanism, and the various effects of each metal give a key to the nature of the concealed deposit...