Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatly augmented by dinner, theatre, and dance, or the "first cost practically the last" if he deems himself a conversationalist of sufficient ability to make an evening of movies attractive. The social worker actuated entirely by charitable motives will of course govern her preferences by her escort's pocket-book; and, after seeing everything in New York in the service of mankind will be a most capable "What's what in New York", able to suggest those amusements equally suited to his disposition...
...looks of the undergraduates, by the pensive droop of their heads, by their strife to be polite to visitors despite the calamity, by the dim lights of the club, by the English tea, by the yearning of the club members fingers toward the breast pocket where the pencil lay, I realized that a great blow had been struck that day for the furtherance of Yale letters...
Letters, manuscripts, and a pocket magnifying glass of John Ruskin were placed on exhibition yesterday in the Treasure Room at Widener Library. They are gifts from the family of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46. The exhibition also includes an etul case of Mrs. Thomas Carlyle, a locket containing a wisp of Thomas Carlyle's hair, a volume of original letters to Professor Norton from Longfellow, Lowell, and others, an original manuscript of John Leverett, President of the College from 1708 to 1724, and a contract of a grant of land to Sir Joseph Eyles bearing the Great Seal...
...years ago a young British officer was our guest for dinner one evening in our home in Asia Minor. During the course of the meal, he took from his pocket a little book, and, handing it to me, said. "Do you mind looking at this for a moment?" Inside the cover was a long list of names, over 200 in fact. Many of these were underlined in red. Looking across the table, the captain remarked. "It is a little school, but we did our part, didn't we?" That list was the names of the men from his little school...
...contrast in "Pygmalion" between Dolittle and his daughter are remarkable. Both are unexpectedly raised to a station of "middle-class morality", but the one, Alfred Dolittle, "ruined" and "intimidated" by the change, which introduces to him fifty unsuspected relatives, who "touch" him where he touched others before, in the pocket book, sinks into despair at the loss of his freedom and the good old happy days of "undeserving poverty"; while the other, Eliza, inspired by some sort of ambition to rise, is left stranded in a very different manner...