Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very little milk and no cream, and colored goose grease in attractive pats but of villainous taste was served in place of butter. One of our business friends who owned a cow gave us some butter in a flat silver box made to be carried in the coat pocket. Sugar was short but not absent, and bread could be obtained without a card only at the hotel were one was registered...
...very valuable documents in a courts room when every usual attempt to photograph them and failed. Concealing his camera under his coat and disguising his camera under his coat and disguising his lens as a watch fob he snapped the pictures by means of a press button in his pocket...
Inconventent as the re-establishment of the "Iron dollar" may be, one source of comfort still remains to us. Think of the satisfying weight and pleasant jingle of the silver dollar as it lies ensconced in the waistcoat pocket...
...forced to the verge of charity by only a few days of joblessness. The unskilled laborer often cannot earn enough to save; the skilled laborer can. Ever since I faced the situation of having to get a position as an unskilled worker before the twenty-five dollars in my pocket was exhausted or else, according to a pledge, live the life of a hobe for six months, I have better comprehended the terrible fear of joblessness that haunts the mind of the unskilled laborer and consequently forces him to restrict output so as not to work himself...
...sophistication of his or her ten or twelve years of age plays the races, shoots craps and drinks cocktails, is offered in "The Children's Hour in a Modern Nursery." "Marriage a la Mode," "The Roof Tops of New York," and "Keystone Beach" are the other pocket comedies, which afford the principals plenty of chances to gain the hearty approval of the audience. The last-named has a most realistic movie "chase" of hero, heroine, villain, comedians and bathing girls, the effect of an actual movie being very creditably achieved...