Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what about the final five of a package of twenty, after the package has become crushed in the pocket, and the tail-enders thrown crosswise and generally tangled up? Or how about those that wander out of the package into the pocket...
...best of our knowledge and belief, the one package that preserves both aroma and form. This is because the inner air-tight wrapping is enclosed in an outer box that is light and comfortable in the pocket, yet adequate to preserve the cigarettes in perfect shape...
...Herbert Bayard Swope?newspaperman extraordinary and editor plenipotentiary, put over a coup. Swope, executive editor of The New York World, went to Washington in a private car, trailing substantial citizens and potent business men in his wake. He returned home jingling the Democratic National Convention of 1924 in his pocket. The story of that event really began 42 years and 10 days earlier, when the cyclonic Swope bounded into the world at St. Louis. He traveled the reportorial route via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, The New York Herald to the "city desk" of The New York World...
...included on the Committees, but Charles F. Murphy, Tammany boss, was doing his bit on the side. Money was raised. Then came the trip to Washington in a private car. It was a glorious party. There was Judge O'Brien with a certified check for $150,000 in his pocket. There was the Judge's son, young Kenneth O'Brien, potentially famed lawyer and Secretary of the National Democratic Club. There was the Acting Mayor of New York City. There was Tex Rickard, A. C. Pearson, George E. Smith. There too was Joseph P. Day, driving auctioneer who, semi-cyclonic...
...Pocket billiards: Ralph Greenleaf of Philadelphia, run of 101 balls, in Rochester...