Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Peebles, Ohio, one Perry Stansberry, weary after a raccoon hunt, slumped down beside his fireplace, filled his corncob pipe with loose tobacco from his pocket, lit, puffed, ruminated, fell back bruised and stunned by the explosion in his pipe-bowl of a .22-calibre rifle cartridge...
...before Christmas, Herman's trouser pocket began to bulge. Now and then, as he reached for the door lever, his pocket clinked. Going up from the ground floor, coming down from the sky, hearty businessmen full of good breakfast or luncheon, swooped under their overcoats and brought out folded bills, crumpled bills, gold coins...
...President, who, however, has not been seen to wear it. It is a Christmas gift, a home-tailored garment, from one Joe Stinson, of Rumsey, Ky. It is neatly pieced together from strips of the skin of a seven-foot rattlesnake. Five rattles went with the offering, in a pocket...
...effects of opium, and four times as strong. A "dope" (morphin addict) quivers with hunger as the time comes for his injection. Sometimes he has a hard time finding a place to take it; he goes into a hotel washroom, a taxicab, even a telephone booth. Out of his pocket comes a piece of candle. He wants to sterilize his injection. He puts water in a spoon, heats it over the candle, dissolves his morphin, filters the solution through cotton, fills his needle, injects. It is to him a holy ritual. He is happiest when he has an acolyte; someone...
...Galliene has gathered around her an excellent company, and if she is not a great actress one is a great director. Her repertoire runs from comedy to tragedy, from Shakespeare to Ibsen. The prices, moreover, are accessible even to the man who carrles his fortune in his vest pocket...