Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked point blank if the "entente cordiale" between Britain and France had been weakened by what Frenchmen call "The Snowden Incident," Scot MacDonald answered quick and short: "That is utterly absurd!" On reaching Geneva, he let it be known that he had in pocket an important declaration concerning world peace. At British delegation headquarters it was hinted that the prime minister would make at least a partial announcement of progress made thus far in his almost daily parleys' anent naval reduction with President Hoover's forthright, hubble-bubbling Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (TIME, June...
Dallas. Robert Lynch, Negro, wanted for the murder of an expressman whose body he cut up with a pocket knife, whose truck he stole...
...Hollywood Revue (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is good-humored, fast film vaudeville, with nice tunes and without a story. There are some new tricks in it. When the master of ceremonies looks for Bessie Love he finds her in his change-pocket; a lilliputian Marion Davies appears with a chorus of giant Grenadiers, later grows up to normal size. During one of the color sequences there is a trick with perfume; the spectators sniff-is it possible?-yes, they smell orange blossoms. Gus Edwards sings "Lon Chancy Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out;" Norma Shearer...
...five o'clock in the morning Mabel was asleep and I went out to take a walk on a station platform. Someone stole my pocket book with all my money, my passport, two crystal bracelets and some samples of window curtains that my mother wanted me to buy in Italy...
...Shenandoah, Iowa, Dwight Nichols drove a golf ball which struck a tree, alighted in the shirt pocket of another player...