Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five minutes passed and The Chief frowned; ten, and he snapped his fingers, fumbled in his pocket, was plainly vexed by the delay. Boris was distressed again. George Akerson, The Chief's secretary, shuttled in and out in frantic search. Finally the ladies were extricated from the jumble. The Chief looked immensely relieved and beamed about him through the drizzle...
...have been to "Chauve-Souris" in the past, let your pocket book be your guide. But if you are ignorant of this once novel form of entertainment, by all means go. "The March of the Wooden Soldiers" should prove reward enough for anyone...
...override him. An increase of pay for postal employes he vetoed and later accepted when higher postal rates were provided to meet the cost. The Bursum Spanish War pension bill he vetoed and by one vote his veto was sustained. A bill for government operation of Muscle Shoals he pocket-vetoed. By firm persuasion he saved the Treasury from "the most extortionate proposal . . . ever made upon the nation's revenues"- the flood control bill as originally conceived by Congress. This business also saved his party from a veto embarrassment that might well have been disastrous...
...debts of Germany to the powers into purely business debts to individuals. Then if by any chance Germany should go bankrupt or bolshevik, the bond salesmen would have made their commissions, the Great Powers would have their money, and only the individuals who bought bonds would be out of pocket. Though the roulette wheel of peoples and politics spins and spins-red or black the bank will...
THIS is a pocket-size edition of new drinking recipes and concotions to be tried on gastronomic systems already in a sad state, thanks to the Anti-Saloon League's practical joke on America...