Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perpetrator of Claverly's most recent robbery was seen by a visitor, spending the night in Room 43, at 3.30 yesterday morning in the process of emptying a pocket-book of its contents. The visitor however, believed the thief to be a friend hunting for cigarettes...
...disturbance took place in room 43, where two visitors were spending the night. These men occupied the window seat in the study. Across the hall, a friend was still studying at a late hour consequently, when one of the guests was awaked by a man fumbling in a coat pocket, he believed the burglar to be this friend hunting for a cigarette, and did not trouble himself further. The culprit was described by the visitor as a dark man, 5 feet 9 inches in height, wearing a light cap and a dark overcoat. He also added that...
...little community of wage-earners within Mr. George's series of enclosures, the point of view changes with surprising swiftness. The enterprising burglar degenerates into the commonplace crook, and the newcomer's statement of "Ladies and gentlemen. I have come to live with you; I am a pick-pocket!" is received with coolness, not to say suspicion...
...there is scarcely any undergraduate at the University who is forced to financial circumstances to forego all other advantages for the sake of the lower rate. The one suggestion left to make is that the way to the undergraduate's heart lies rather through his palate than through his pocket-book: It would seem wise to try the experiment of raising the rates high enough to furnish excellent food--food that is better than that of the average Cambridge restaurant--at the same time liberalizing the conditions of signing up for board. All this will never succeed in bringing...
...Tunis; he was meditating a trip to central Asia when one of those remarkable accidents which seemed always to be happening to intelligent and well-connected young Englishmen 40 years ago diverted him to the west coast of Africa, with a letter to Explorer Stanley in his pocket...