Word: pocketsful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Proposals. Numerous representatives of private organizations and a few individuals were heard by the Committee. Among the most interesting witnesses were two delegations, one from Texas (home of Representative Garner, ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee), the other from Iowa (home of Chairman Green, ranking Republican). Both...
There "knock-out" is a kind of smart chicanery by which art dealers reap illicit gains. Instead of bidding against each other, they obtain valuable objects at insignificant cost by forming a pool and appointing a representative to bid for them. Whatever is bought in the interests of the pool...
For seven years he has sat serenely on the international powder box. A snapping-jawed, tight-lipped man, he has scared away the rascals. A jovial good fellow with pockets full of laughs, he has out-joked the wily villain. A great seaman, he has understood the fighting man.
Directors of college endowment campaigns are developing a technique that rivals the proverbial versatility of the cat-killing profession. There are now a score of ingenious ruses for extricating funds from fat pockets among alumni and benevolent friends-class insurance, class honor rolls, winning football teams, and (old but infallible...
In his suite at the Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia, sat John L. Lewis,head of the United Mine Workers. He well realized the implications of Governor Fuller's "lesson." A serious strike in the anthracite fields might ruin the anthracite business, permanently jeopardizing the fortunes of his flock. One way out...