Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hartman, Editor of the onetime Zion's Herald. He proposed that every member of the Board should give his gold watch to the cause. Luther B. Wilson, famed Bishop, at once saw the point. He took out his watch, went to the table, laid it down. In the pocket of Bishop Grose ticked the timepiece of the late James W. Bashford,* Bishop of Peking, who put Methodism on the Oriental side of the map. That, too, went on the table. It was a good idea. C. E. Welch,† grape juice man, took his watch to the table...
...editorial writer points out, wholesale changes in the vernacular are not so easily induced. "Pocket billiards" is still "pool" to the general public, for all the efforts of Brunswick-Balke-Collender...
...society don't give him a tumble.* Dey rubs de welcome off de mat. Dey tink he ought to be punished all his life. Why, dere was a guy come out of de jug only four days ago wit' ten dollars in his pocket. Nobody gives him a tumble, but he'd been tru' college and been to medical school. I asks him what he wants to do an' he says he wants to study bugs-dat's nuts-and I've just got him a job at Central Islip...
...young man, indicated by the arrow, put there so that you may identify him, is W. R. Hearst, Jr., learning something about his father's newspaper business in the pressroom and, as the rules require, working with a union card in his pocket...
...seized my hat and got away from that place as fast as I could. When I returned to the hotel I found that there had been about 20 telephone calls for me from the office. Not for $25 per week do I do extra work to keep the pocket book of W. R. Hearst watered. I've worked for all sorts of outfits and found them about the same...