Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with illegally selling liquor in Washington's Union Station, saw him, as usual, prepare to beat the rap. Davenport keeps his liquor in station lockers, sells the key-not the liquor-to his customers. To avoid charges of loitering, he always carries a ticket to Baltimore in his pocket...
...with sales dropping, Gene began to shave prices. Corn dropped a nickel. Finally, at 8 p.m., his truck was empty. Dead tired, he and Winnifred set out for home. It had been a good day and there was more than $100 in the pocket of Gene's heavy black pants...
Kaiser charged that White had "tried to blackjack the Government" into letting Republic have the plant dirt-cheap. He told how once, on the telephone, White had called him "the kind of fellow that carries a pistol in his pocket." When Kaiser tried to recall the date, White offered to provide it. Said he: "I had a stenographer on the telephone...
Arthur Murray has been persuaded to teach the "Carmen Flamenco"; Novelist Sophie Kerr has ground out a 30-part serialization of the movie that the N.E.A. syndicate will offer to some 600 newspapers; Pocket Books, Inc. has issued a 25? edition of the Mérimée novel, plugging the movie on the cover; John Powers has selected a Carmen-type model; Manhattan Psychiatrist Dr. Frederic Wertham has put Carmen on the couch for a psychoanalytical study and has concluded: "The world is full of Carmens...
Deep-Voiced Man. With that, the committeemen informed Hiss coldly that his testimony corroborated Chambers' in detail. How could he explain such point-by-point testimony from a man he said he had never met? Hiss produced a note pad from his pocket. On it, he said, he had written the name of the only man he had ever known who might possibly fit Chambers' description. The name was "George Crosley...