Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of one so justly honored as the author of this novel, it may be said that the book teems with action. Like a disorderly street seen from a window, cobbled with yellow faces, it teems; adventures shoulder and jostle; events prod each other's ribs; Sentimentality picks the pocket of Romance. One is forcibly reminded that nothing is quite so dull as unvaried liveliness. It is a book that achieves a forthright swagger that the fiction of this latter day has largely lost. Beauty in distress is white; villainy is black indeed. It relinquishes, at the same time, whatever...
...shoes, 1 pair; dress suit, 1; tuxedo coat, 1; pajamas, 1; Corona typewriter, 1; electric hair cutter, 1; men's arctics, 1 pair; laced rubber boots, 1 pair; men's shoes, 2 pairs; ties, 1; opera glasses, 1; scarf, 1; wool jacket, 1; kodak film packs, 2; pocket knife, 1; pearl pin, 1; pipes, 2; leather bags, 2 (one with letter "M" and one from which letters had been removed); puttees, 1;alarm clocks, 2; cameras...
...electorate by the best of advertising methods, News columns reflect as much as advertising pages the desire of vote seekers to hold the public attention by a massive emphasis on slogans and names. Issues fade, personalities are focussed. The same blaring methods that drag money from the pocket of the reader of advertisements tend to be equally successful in drawing his votes. Reiteration, not seasoning, wins...
...legitimate, as no other paper on Thursday, Oct. 16, more than approached The Times in solidity. The Chicago Daily News, however, with 48 pages was large enough to be a considerable burden to a newsboy; The Chicago Tribune had 36 with which to swell a business man's pocket; The New York World and The New York Herald-Tribune each provided 32 for the littering of breakfast tables, Pullmans or wherenot. Other papers whose bulk did not forbid their being folded by an active man in any conveniently clear space were The Kansas City Star with...
...family often shares." The President was dressed in a gray suit with a mourning band on one sleeve. Mrs. Coolidge wore an all-white dress. The Prince was attired in a grey-blue lounge suit with white pinstripes, a white handkerchief with a blue border stuck in his breast pocket...