Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a man slips out of a store with something picked up from the counter, he is called a sneak thief. For the man who slips away from the Reading Room with a Library book in his pocket or his bag, or concealed among his own books, we may drop the "thief" if we like, because in most cases he means to return the book, and in some cases does so, but he is no less a sneak, for he does in an underhand way and to secure a mean advantage for himself, what he cannot do openly and with...
...that the estimates of those who foster large scale expenditure are apt to err upon the slender side. In this case, the law of probability favors the accuracy of the Secretary's opinion rather than the Senator's. Apparently, then, the present bill will dig pretty deeply into the pocket-books of the American public...
...impartial presenting of events--facts alone--in the news columns. Some periodicals have carried this reform to the advertising pages; they investigate the truth of what they publish. And why not? The day has come when one looks askance at the garish appeals to one's pocket-book, when reliable advertising has become a tremendous factor in a manufacturer's success. The reform is in its first stages, for there is much of the old time trickery still in evidence; but the progress that has been made, and will be made, proves the new meaning of the old adage...
...neglected to mention that the advance party brought back from the university several pocket-fuls of curious metal disks and tiny images, much in the nature of watch-charms. Senor Alvarotez is at work on defining them, and I hope to have a definite report to give your readers in my next letter. Cordially yours. J. BLAIR-DUNCAN...
Germany, like "The Varmint", will never allow its neighbors to become bored. Not content with assuming the financial obligations of half the world, the Germans have decided to dig a little deeper into their pockets and their Fatherland. Having stumbled on an odd billion or so (marks not dollars), they have, according to an Associated. Press dispatch, organized a canal corporation at Munich to construct a two thousand mile waterway by joining the Rhine, the Main and the Danube. The engineering details will tax the German imagination as much as the Allied Reparation Demands will tax their pocket books...