Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then, we want not only common justice, but we want to offer to the American people common honesty. And when I speak of common honesty I do not mean only that we shall keep our fingers out of the public pocket. I do not mean only that we shall abstain from stealing the public money or giving away the public lands. I mean honesty in thought as well as honesty in deed...
...winked at the spires of Prague, Mrs. Gray noted that her spouse had not returned from the cabaret around the corner. At high noon, Harry was still absent. Enquiries were made. People became anxious. More than one man of money toyed nervously with the crowns in his trousers pocket. Some scanned their ledgers with much anxiety, noted that large sums of money had been paid to Mr. Gray, remembered that value was due and had not been received...
...duties in the tariff history of the Nation, there was an unblushing return to the evil days of rewarding party support and political contributions with legislative favors. . . . For every dollar that this statute has drawn into the treasury of the United States it has diverted five from the pocket of the consumer into the pockets of the favored...
...further advance is harrowing. Also they are broke. The Government allowed them $8-a-day expenses on the world flight and they will have to account for every dollar to recover. Yet in London alone they spent $300 apiece for their Arctic equipment; they are $1,000 out of pocket. "Will we really fly home and will we ever get our money back?" are not worries that these brave men deserve...
...also denounced "the six greatest evils" of the day. These, according to his enumeration, are: "Divorce, race suicide, the public dance halls ('some dances,' said he, are 'soul-killing in the extreme'), the narcotic-drug habit, the hip-pocket flask, and the automobile-brothel...