Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Erskine Caldwell, ribald explorer into the itchy side of the South, was enjoying a crashing success in Denver with his 14-year-old God's Little Acre. The pocket edition (25?) was fetching $5 on the black market, and bookstores were sold out of the regular edition. Responsible for the boom: the head of the police Morals Bureau, who suppressed the 25? Acre because "it was too easy for kids to get it." Did he find the book obscene? "No comment," said...
Pounding his own stomach to stress the point, Tunney rummaged in his Shakespeare pocket for an apt quote. He found one-"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-but abandoned it with a nervous laugh in midline. The rest of the quote: ". . . he thinks too much. Such men are dangerous...
...friends tell an anecdote of his criminal law days. He had just put his wife in a Bombay hospital, returned to Ahmedabad to argue a murder case. He was on his feet when a telegram arrived. He read that his wife had died, put the telegram into his pocket and went on with his argument as if he had never been interrupted...
Weaving through the Holyoke Street blast, Vag clutched the paper in his pocket, and, reassured, kept on up the street. He remembered when the long, heavy envelope had arrived. He'd looked at it suspiciously, noticing the return address. Dimly, in the background, he'd heard martial music playing as he extracted, in order, a small card, a large, many-itemed form, and a snide little scrap of yellow paper. It was to this last that he'd addressed wary attention; it was closely printed with a series of crisp pronunciamentos, studded with "you will," "do not fail...
...every ten articles the boys come in here looking for. Mostly they are things that the finder has no use for, like books. We have the lowest average on things like fountain pens and automatic pencils--when someone finds a Parkers 51 under their seats they seem to just pocket it without a second thought...