Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foolish the farmer who, having dug into his pocket to buy a horse, leaves the beast munching in his stable and trudges to town afoot...
Some of the veterans expected out for the first practice today are Captain A. C. Reed '26, W. W. Babson '27, D. R. Salfer '26, J. C. Skilling '26, H. H. Watch-pocket '28, and G. H. Watsom...
...watched, the two men ran up an alley and disappeared . . . About two blocks farther I saw a man who had been pinioned by two other men. One of them was behind him and had hold of his wrist, and the other had a hand in the man's pocket. . A woman came running up, and as the hold-up men disappeared she took the victim away. I haven't got the exact dates and places, but I will have and I will claim that $100 and give it to the Illinois Fundamentalist Association...
...gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island (their coaling station on the way north), the Peary leading the way with MacMillan aboard. The latter discussed with Commander Byrd the likelihood of repairing one of their two disabled planes...
...Judge, David D. Leahy, walked through the lobby. He suddenly struck Mr. Magee and knocked him to the floor. As Magee started to rise, Judge Leahy kicked him in the side, breaking two of his ribs. In the scuffle Magee grasped a revolver which he had had in his pocket and fired at Leahy. At that moment an employe of the hotel tried to seize Leahy. Magee's shot went through the peacemaker's throat. He fell dying to the floor. Leahy started again to kick Magee who was still down, and Magee fired twice more hitting Leahy...