Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seemingly President Hoover is well pleased that Ambassador Gibson has contented himself with stating these principles' broadly and keeping the Hoover Formula in his pocket. For, last week, Secretary of State Stimson cabled to Mr. Gibson...
...wearing a white mask acutely reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan. But not one of the 40,000 people who were watching him, not Vice President Curtis, who once rode horses, nor Mrs. Gann, who had a good seat, nor Maryland's Governor Ritchie, nor Will Rogers, whose pocket was picked of four mutuel tickets, thought of the Klan as they watched what Dr. Freeland was about. They were all interested in seeing what horse would win the famed Preakness horse-race. Dr. Freeland, who is a big fast three-year-old horse out of Toddle by Light Brigade...
...Lakes water diversion; 2) Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contempt of the Senate; 3) New York's 5? Fare; 4) Canadian immigration. Three notable cases pending are: 1) Oilman Sinclair's contempt of court (jury shadowing); 2) St. Louis & O'Fallon railway valuation; 3) presidential pocket vetoes...
...shines the Whalen shoes twice daily at police headquarters. Whalen commands were issued. Carnozzi dimensions were taken. Last week a new bootblack shined the Whalen shoes?still named Giuseppe Carnozzi but now clad in blue livery with brass buttons, with the title BOOTBLACK embroidered on cap, on breast pocket...
...whole was a series of experiments in wireless telegraphy. On Mr. Dunninger's back, under his coat, were a transmitting set and four flashlight batteries so carefully concealed that they did not distort his figure. Inside his trouser legs dangled antennae. In his pocket was a telegraph...