Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a contract from the Globe in his pocket, Robert L. Moore '49, of Winthrop House and Concord sets off for the United Kingdom this summer to write a series of articles on the topic of "An American Soldier Revisits England Three Years Later...
...refuse collecting, got a complaint from a citizen whose wife had accidentally thrown $30 in the garbage: the collectors had whisked the stuff away before the couple could rescue the money. Kennelly quieted the man down-and set a perilous precedent -by forking over $30 out of his own pocket...
Beating Out the Figures. The "telephone coincidental" reports are gathered, run through I.B.M. machines, beaten into percentages and published every two weeks in "the pocket piece," a small green booklet that is every huckster's Bible. Every network hour is tabulated and every commercially sponsored program is rated by "points." Example: the 31.1 top mark of Bob Hope in the last Hooperating means that 31.1 out of every hundred persons telephoned while the Hope show was going on told the Hooperaters that they were listening to Hope. People who did not answer the phone were counted as not listening...
Alec's first screen role - Herbert Pocket in Dickens' Great Expectations - decided him that here was the life. He promptly hired an agent to rustle him up some more movie jobs, preferably "a Hollywood picture for the good it does one - not financial especially, but for one's reputation." His agent's impression: "There's no bloody nonsense about Alec...
...privilege to talk with Artist Ralph Albert Blakelock, whose moonlit lakes and forests were bringing up to $20,000 apiece. And the painter seemed perfectly all right, too-at least, until the moment when he drew what looked like a roll of bills from his pocket and gave three to his visitor. "Take this back to Chicago," Blakelock soberly advised him. "Don't spend it, but live off the interest." The bills turned out to be three little green landscapes, which Blakelock had painted to look like paper money...