Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much it is worth to famed Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, Harry Marks, Gabriel Wells or some other gentleman who collects books for profit or passion. Dr. Rosenbach (Alice In Wonderland inan) raised his hand vertically many times at the Kern sale* but three times he kept it in his pocket. Three times he refused to go on with the bidding, lost a coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley's Queen Mob, $68,000; Lamb's contribution to Hone's Table Book, $48,000; Pope...
...took from his pocket several tubes which contained small yellow grains of crystal-like appearance, but which he explained as amorphous forms of the dried venom, which is an albuminous substance, whose chemical composition is about five to 12 times as complex as the tetanus toxin. These dried venoms, he explained, are sent to the central institute, are dissolved in brine and glycerine and the solution is injected into horses in successive increments. The reaction of this poison with the cells of the horse produces antibodies. After a lapse of time the horse is bled and the serum proteins...
Whether "Feng the Mighty" will be permitted to shoulder this giant's burden-and incidentally to pocket Shantung-was not clear last week. At Nanking other Nationalist leaders were loath to comment; but Finance Minister T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of President Chiang Kaishek, did reveal that he has worked out a program for disbanding all but 715,000 of the new State's 1,500,000 troops. Whether some, any or all of Marshal Feng's troops would be disbanded, shrewd Dr. Soong would...
...snorted impatiently to carry Frith-Walter to the Riviera. He was healthy, he was wealthy, he was witty and wise; all was well with his world. "The earth lies all before me"-he had liked that line of Wordsworth, so he boarded the train with The Prelude in his pocket, and anticipated mellow pleasure in the reading...
...Kansas City. Mo., a nicely dressed gentleman entered the Catholic Cathedral. He was Henry J. Schepers. a bill collector. He knelt in prayer in a rear pew. Then, still kneeling, he drew a pistol from his pocket and blew a hole through his head. The bullet pierced a stained glass window with the gleaming legend THY SINS ARE FORGIVEN THEE. The bullet hole made a period for the sentence...