Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said the Treasury had lots of money, but when we come to taking the tax off a few tickets to baseball and football games, you remind us that we are awfully poor. . . . But a few minutes ago you told us we were 'lousy' with money. We went into the pockets of Uncle Sam just now and stole all his money, but now you tell us the poor people must put their nickels in his vest pocket...
...Students from the peasant and working classes", continued the noted economist, "are not only given a free education by the state, but they are even paid to go to school unless furnished with ample outside means. This aid from the government includes tuition, food, lodging pocket money, and even baths and barber shop attention...
With this sanction in his pocket, Herr Stresemann considered the German application so nearly an accomplished fact that he telegraphed the German Ambassador at Paris to inform Premier Briand that Germany would actually apply to the League within three days. Late despatches reported that the Premiers of the Federated States of the German Republic were en route to Berlin, there to indorse formally the German application, the actual text of which was to be drawn up at a Cabinet Council presided over by President Hindenburg...
...more chic than the Folies Bergére, farther up Montmartre. Elbowing their way forward the eager Parisians were waited upon by the most insolent and rapacious hat-check girls, program boys, and tip-extracting ushers in Western Europe. Forewarned that the foreigners have accustomed the Concert's servitors to pocket a bill of any size without giving change, the Parisians placed exactly one franc 50 centimes (6c) in the hands of the program boys, and rewarded the ushers with 50 centimes per head (2c) for showing them to their seats. Then they settled down to enjoy Quel Beau Nu, successor...
Showdown. Chancellor Luther ascended the Tribune after his henchmen had assiduously bruited it about that he carried in his pocket an order for the dissolution of the Reichstag which bore the signature "Paul von Hindenburg." If the vote of confidence should be defeated, the Chancellor would announce that President von Hindenburg believed that only a general election could terminate the three-cornered deadlock now existing between the various Reichstag factions. The Deputies pondered well whether they wished to lose their seats and campaign for them again. While they pondered, Foreign Minister Stresemann seized the occasion as the psychological moment...