Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method would seem to be as follows: 1) Read papers furiously in effort to distract mind. 2) Hold small quantity of whiskey in mouth extracted from pocket flask. 3) Plaster offending molar with chewing...
...Recently pocket mouthed, mustachioed, big fisted Editor Waldo Lincoln Cook wrote an editorial, titled with New Hampshire Senator George H. Moses' phrase "A Sullenly Accepted Administration...
...Reporter Kenneth Campbell's pocket Pastor Straton noted a copy of Bernarr Macfadden's tabloid Graphic, and asked to see it. The reporter described: "The family gathered around the bed to inspect it. At the first glance Dr. Straton sat bolt upright and Mrs. Straton who was holding the newspaper emitted sorrowful clucks. The-pastor's noseglasses slipped from his nose and he fumbled for them among the covers, retrieved them and put them in place. His eyes narrowed with anger as he looked at the picture...
...obscure in the popular eye as he is small in stature (5 ft., 1 in.). And yet, it is Mr. Bellanca who designed the Columbia that stayed in the air over the U. S. for 51 hours and later flew 3,905 miles, who carries in his pocket the plans for a plane to travel 300 miles per hour, who carries in his mind the plans for gigantic transatlantic airliners, who is regarded by European experts as the leader in modern design...
...before they have their letters properly formed. If writing is not taught, something else must be, and typewriting seems to fill the breach as well as anything. Possibly it may no be many years before students at the University may be attending lectures and examinations in company with a pocket typewriter. The Pennsylvanian...