Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have been sunset if daylight-saving had not turned it into midafternoon, the boats moved out; Penn was in front, Yale next, Columbia last. A mile went by. Was a Yale crew going to be beaten? The coxswain did not think so; he put his hand in his pocket, produced a red handkerchief and waved it, once; the Yale shell went up; Yale men leaned shrieking out of observation cars, danced wildly on the float as the boats crossed the line-Yale, Penn, Columbia. The prophets had been right...
Last week such hope dawned again. President Philip Albright Small Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine Co. was on the high seas coming home to Manhattan from several weeks of negotiation with British interests for the sale of his White Star Line. He had virtually in his pocket some $36,500,000, and P. A. S. Franklin is not the man to let money lie idle or even to earn puny interest...
...carpenter was outraged to discover that his hero's salary as Premier is but 90,000 francs a year. Vexed and eager to right what he considered a wrong, the carpenter straightway despatched 1,000 francs ($33) to M. Briand, with the request that he expend it as "pocket money...
...facts of Mr. Lewis' offense are simple. Standing on the rostrum of the Linwood Boulevard Christian Church, he took his watch out of his pocket with a theatrical gesture and laid it on the prayer desk before him. It was an accurate watch, he said. He would give God ten minutes precisely. . . ten minutes to demonstrate that He existed by striking him, Sinclair Lewis, author, dead where he stood. The people in the Linwood Boulevard Christian Church waited patiently. In the Independence Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church a few blocks away, a "golden wedding choir" (men and women who had been...
Cherry Pie. A pocket-sized revue was put on at the pocket-sized Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village and proved dull. It was one of the various little musical shows which spring up as summer approaches, in the hope of emulating the success of the Grand Street Follies and the Garrick Gaieties. One or two of the players, all unblessed by previous prominence, were markedly adept; one or two of the sketches were smart...