Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several days ago, while at my occupation of driving a cab, I was engaged in making change for one of my fares. TIME dropped from my pocket and opened itself on the pavement at the feet of my customer. He looked, brightened and increased my tip from ten cents to one dollar. TIME is irresistible...
Explaining that he probably found the wrong house he withdrew and without a cent in his pocket in the early hours of the morning was on the street with no place...
...pocket veto" (failure to act on a bill ten days after receiving it, Congress having ad-journed), the President killed a bill to increase the pensions of Civil War widows, over 75 years of age, from $30 to $40 a month...
...most inflammatory and satiric senatorial style. Said he: "I think His Honor will tell you that the Hebrew race is not here bringing this suit, and that Mr. Sapiro has no right to come here and recover damages for the Hebrew race, and put the money in his own pocket as damage done to himself. This is not che case of former Gov. Lowden, or Mr. Lasker, or Mr. Baruch, or Mr. Lazinsky, or anybody else. This is the case, I repeat, of Aaron Sapiro or Sapyro-I don't know just which wav to pronounce...
...said the Tutor in History, "romance and adventure have disappeared from modern times. I took a bicycle trip through Ireland in its most troubled time and didn't hear a shot fired; I walked through the Ghetto with several hundred lire in my pocket in the early morning hours--and nothing happened...