Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard men may keep their grey flannels well pressed, but the job keeps half a dozen pocket-cleaners in Square valeterias on edge...
...local laundry not long age had to deal with a married student who left in his pocket a love letter, not to his wife. He called sometime later, frantically begging the proprietor to find the billet doux before the clothes were delivered. Searching every suit in the shop, they found...
...chief inspector of shops in the Southern Pacific yards. Young Earl was brought up in a tough, frontier atmosphere, was riding his pet burro down the main street of Bakersfield on the day an outlaw shot & killed Deputy Sheriff William E. Tibbett, father of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett. He earned pocket money as a newsboy, later as a cub reporter for the Bakersfield Californian. In high school he spent summers as a call-boy waking up railroaders for the S.P., did odd jobs as a freight hustler and farm hand, learned to play the clarinet in the school band. He still...
...Manhattan the next fall, he gave up singing as a career when Critic Deems Taylor gave him full marks for a good voice but said that he sang without "enough impulse." His voice kept him in pocket money (he sang in church choirs and in a synagogue) while he finished up at Columbia Law School. With his degree in his pocket, he spent the summer of 1925 on his first & only trip to Europe (London, Paris, Brussels), returned to enter the Manhattan law firm of Larkin, Rathbone & Perry. At the same time he jumped into local politics, worked...
Over the Hurdle? Both the merged companies, though separately owned, were already controlled by the complex holding company pyramid of the Alexander and Baldwin families. In putting both companies into one corporate pocket, Frank Baldwin had several cogent reasons...