Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indispensable in the Commission's opinion) if the gold parity of the pound was to be maintained. The seriousness of the situation, last week, may be judged from the fact that for the first time since the Cunliff Minimum was laid down, the Old Lady's gold-in-pocket fell below the "desirable" limit...
...Mayflower to his Shenandoah National Park camp site to build his Lodge, repair roads. Quickly the President despatched Secretary George Akerson to the Press to make this announcement: "Every nail and every board in the President's camp was paid for by Herbert Hoover out of his own pocket. . . . The roads to the camp were built by the State of Virginia. . . . The Marine detail is the usual presidential guard. ... Its only task is to keep its own quarters in condition...
Cyril Tolley, British amateur golf champion, contended that an advertisement containing a caricature of him making "a poor stroke before a smiling caddy with a packet of a well-known brand of chocolates protruding from his pocket," was an aspersion on his amateur status. J. S. Fry Sons, Ltd., the chocolate makers, replied that Cabinet ministers (and Charles Spencer Chaplin) had been shown in the same series and had not sued. Golfer Tolley retorted: "Cabinet ministers are professionals." The Court agreed, awarded him $5,000 damages. This verdict encouraged attorneys for Helen Wills, who protested the use of her picture...
...last visit to England. Not wealthy, he resides modestly in suburban Manchester, browses there among his books. Each day he bicycles to the office, waving to friends as they pass. On a homebound ride last week, after announcement of his resignation had been made, he carried in his pocket a message from his King, regretting his resignation, congratulating him on an achievement "which must surely be unique in the history of journalism...
...Speech. After Lord Desborough's introduction, embroidered with such quips and quiddities as all Yeomen of the guard insist on. Ambassador Dawes stood up, pulled a typed manuscript from his pocket, apologized for reading his speech, but said its importance made reading necessary. The Pilgrims leaned forward on their chairs to catch the sound of his thin, high-pitched staccato voice. The major diplomats at the speakers' table were less excited. Earlier in the day Diplomat Dawes had asked them to read his speech in advance...