Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young Stinnes speaks English "fluently but with an accent." Approached by reporters who exhorted him to "say something," he reached into his pocket, extracted copies of the following typewritten statement, distributed them...
Notwithstanding Senator Johnson's popularity in certain circles, his chance of securing the Republican Nomination appears a trifle doubtful. Unfortunately he does not manufacture vest-pocket automobiles or inexpensive tractors, and even if he is a farmer, not all voters are farmers. Likewise President Coolidge, whatever may be his faults, has a certain cool stability which California's orator lacks. In fact the latter's most stable characteristic through his long and varied career seems to have the joyous virulence with which he attacks his enemy of the moment. Since he will probably not be wafted into the White House...
Walter Camp has incorporated in "A Pocket Bridge Book," which Doubleday, Page & Company have just published, many bridge proverbs which have the weight and wisdom of bitter experience. These are a few of them...
...coal within the bounds of reason. And therein the Commission has found the catch. While in every crisis consumers have blamed the retailers, retailers have blamed the railroads, and everyone has blamed the miners, who of course must have been perched in Luxury's lap, wholesaler after wholesaler was pocketing his "bit" on the same ton of coal. In their "banner year", indeed, of 1920 each wholesaler who did not handle shipments himself and therefore was merely speculating made an average profit of 15 cents per ton--a return of about fifty-five per cent, on capital invested. If this...
...precautions were unnecessary. For the first time in many years not a single pick-pocket; not a single automobile thief was doing business in the crowd that filled the Stadium. After every game in the past cases of theft ranging from watches to automobiles have been reported...