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Word: pocketsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fees. "The medical man who deceives his patient by some scheme of division of fees might just as well pick his patient's pockets. This [such evils] should be attacked without any sensationalism, and certainly without any publicity."? Dr. Arthur Dean Sevan, Chicago.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thrashing | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

In Manhattan, police were informed by telephone that "200 men are murdering each other" in a Bowery speakeasy. The strong-arm squad found a large room full of tumbling, bashing, roaring, drunken men whom they described as "bummers." Tables, floor and an icebox were strewn with forms knocked unconscious by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Clubs | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

He had a way of turning up at backwoods settlements, bearded, his pockets bulging, his underclothes gone. The latter he had used up for gun wads. His pockets contained bird skins, sheafs of notes, manuscript. He was the naturalist, John James Audubon, whose grandmanner personality made credentials unnecessary. He had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Vasty Audition | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Thus spake "The Cambridge Chronicle" concerning modern youth at a time, to use its own words, when "hip pockets for lapdogs are the latest innovations in ladies' dresses" and there were to be "no more strolls by moonlight in the Court House yard."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Curled Darlings of the Nation" Caught in Act of Flagrant Cruelty--1877 "Chronicle" Deplores Loose Harvard Morals | 2/2/1927 | See Source »

"The four horsemen of industrial warfare-strike, death, famine and destruction-are gathering near the borders of the great bituminous coal fields."-NEWS ITEM. That means: the Jacksonville agreement of 1924 between the bituminous union miners and operators expires March 31. Unless a new compromise can be reached, 200,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COAL: Bituminous Boys | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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