Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert La Follette. The vote of Wisconsin is securely in Fighting Bob's pocket. It has two significances: 1) Either as a threat of a third party to make the Old Guard do his bidding; 2) or a nucleus with which openly to secede from the G. O. P. and start alone. Mr. La Follette's health seems to prejudice serious consideration of the latter course...
...greater king than Canute. (P. 1.) Fighting Bob's pocket...
...family chaise with $25 in his pocket and went into business; both my grandfathers and my father were able leading business men of Boston. Hence I am jealous for the good name and the high calling of business. It is not first a machanism for the making of money but is a high calling for the upbuilding of civilization its history is full of romance, chivalry and faith...
...Pennsylvania, and Copeland of New York asked for a larger allowance for clerk hire because they come from large states and have many letter-writing constituents. Senator Pepper declared that his salary was $7,500 a year, but that he had to spend $10,500 out of his own pocket to hire extra clerks. A resolution to assist the three unfortunate might have been promptly passed, had not Senator Willis of Ohio demanded that its benefits be extended to others with inflated correspondence...
...rooms the thief missed some good hauls. One student had two pocket books, one containing $20 and the other $2. The burglar finding the $2 moved on to the next room. Another who had 75 cents in one pocket and $10 in another escaped as easily as his neighbor...