Word: pocketsful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Osawatomie, Kansas, U. S. history has on several occasions been made.- Last week in Osawatomie, U. S. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri made a speech on which he informally opened his campaign for the Democratic-Presidential nomination. Under a blue and windy sky the farmers who had come...
The Kahn family shakes its head over Roger's "speed complex." At 14 he used to ride a motorcycle up the steep sides of the bunkers on his father's golf course. He tore down his first Ford and put it together so that it was a racing car with...
In Manhattan, a corpulent blackamoor was apprehended for picking pockets. In court, as soon as the culprit's name was mentioned, the judge recalled him as a citizen with a prior blot on his record, dating back to 1920. (The corpulent culprit's name was Juice Stain.)
Little pieces of paper, when stuffed into people's pockets or pock etbooks, wear out less quickly than big pieces. Also, little ones can be made into one-dollar bills more cheaply than big ones.
¶An ingenious deduction emanated from Oxford to explain the frequency of discoveries of old Roman coins. The explanation: In Roman garments there were no pockets, only loose folds. Coins, brooches, studs, gems, girdles dropped out easily.