Word: pockets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resumed his stance, swung his iron, lifted the ball toward the green, which was encircled by the gallery. None saw where the ball lighted, save that it plopped somewhere among the spectators. Everyone looked at everyone else. One spectator felt in his pocket, found the ball, in embarrassment dropped it on good ground. Not inexcusably Von Elm lost the hole, but won the match with Dr. (not dental) William Tweddell...
...race-track gambler, the son of a Syrian hop-seller, who seldom bet on a horse except to win. In the course of his wild career, he was often broke and more than once a millionaire. In 1923 he swaggered into New Orleans with a few dollars in his pocket and came away, after the season's racing, with $800,000. A few months later he lost his money and got pneumonia. He went to a hospital and said, "Pneumonia is easy to beat...
This conclusion, if correct, constituted one of the week's large pieces of news. Nominee Hoover is the heir of the Coolidge Administration. The Coolidge attitude on Boulder Dam has never been positively known. Toward the so-called Power Trust, President Coolidge has not, however, been cold. He pocket-vetoed a Muscle Shoals measure calling for Federal instead of private operation. He chose for Secretary of the Interior and ex-officio member of the Federal Power Commission, a man, Roy Owen West, who has long been the friend and frequently the employe of Samuel Insull of Chicago, the most...
...stands full six feet tall. No brittle yellowman he, but broad and bronzed and bland. Bible in hand or coat pocket. Pistol within arms reach. Devout Christian. Dead shot. Master of the world's largest private army-195,000 men. Such today is China's Strongest Man: Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, pronounced "Fung U-sheeang...
...cater to the world. . . . They are discriminating and we try never to lose sight of that fact. We know that the single standard of high quality will produce better motor cars than were we to attempt to secure the business of the world by building to all the pocket books...