Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Calvin Coolidge completed the preparation of his message to Congress, or, in Constitutional language, prepared "information of the state of the union." and recommendations for such measures as he judges "necessary and expedient." Having drafted his " information," he put it quietly into his pocket...
...deaths of books are nearly always tragic. Either they are destroyed by violence or they suffer a lingering dissolution. How the younger volumes must look up to the martyred Aeschylus, found ? wet and bedraggled ? in the pocket of the drowned Shelley! J.A.T...
Last week Mr. Strassburger appeared in Washington. In his pocket was a letter full of " blistering words." As between Strassburger and Lasker, it seems the Californian prefers the latter. So Mr. Strassburger went to call on Calvin Coolidge at the White" House...
Surmises of this or that new prohibition, fear expressed for "Mr. Fillmore's" sanity, and morose brooding about collapsible hip-pocket coffee-per-colators in the future...
...perpetual lease on a two-acre estate adjoining the site of the old U. S. embassy, in Tokyo, destroyed by fire during the great earthquake. U. S. Ambassador Woods is now en route for his native land with the Japanese offer and plans for a new embassy in his pocket...