Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrase that ended one struggle, began another. Since getting out of the steamer Russia at Castle Garden, with $40 in bills sewed in the pocket of his second-best waistcoat, Adolph Zukor had been busy all the time. First, for $2 a week, he helped an upholsterer, but he weighed less than 100 pounds then, and pushing down sofa and chair springs while he wove fabric round them was too hard for him. Feeling his strength passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business...
...royal acts. Constitutionally the pen scratch of His Majesty is of no effect, unless countersigned by a member of the Government. Therefore when Signor Federzoni's ministry was snatched away, last week, the King was popped even deeper down into the depths of Benito Mussolini's ogreish pocket...
Rothstein was the big loser. At the end of the sitting he had to give his IOU for $349,000. He gave another IOU for $49,000 in cash lying on the table, which he shoved into his pocket. "See you later," he told them, and went...
...slender, dexterous, rubber gloved hands of Sir Hugh Rigby applied the knife. Swiftly he pierced between two ribs, pierced further, and introduced a drainage tube into a festering pus pocket, in the lower section of the right lung, which had been exuding poison into the blood royal...
Without X-ray the pus pocket could not have been located and Death would have been certain.' As the poison drained off and the King-Emperor stirred, awakening from the anesthesia, a sympathetic world gasped at his improvement as though at a miracle...