Word: pocketsful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liberal Leader David Lloyd George bleated: "This measure contains some of the worst and none of the best features of Socialism." The Clydeside Laborites, who want the Government to nationalize the coal industry and pay high wages (if necessary out of the taxpayers' pockets), were frankly furious. The vote...
Last week the spotlight of world attention focused on another U. S. diplomat. With his pockets stuffed with authorizations from President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson, Jay Pierrepont Moffat, U. S. Chargé D'Affaires at Berne,* traveled from London to Geneva to sign World Court articles of...
"It is our custom hereabouts," he wrote, "to put a shilling in the pockets of a boy's first long trousers to bring him luck and wealth. May it bring Rumania's handsome little king all the luck in the world, and any additional wealth that he may desire."
Rin Tin Tin, but it would be hard to find a story that made less use of her talents. After a white trader has persuaded her to run away from her Eskimo husband she sings for a while in a ginmill in Nome, Alaska. The girls in the ginmill pick...
Some small percentage of the uninvited guests systematically frisk the parked automobiles; others aid lost articles in staying lost perpetually, in spite of the efforts of the Lost and Found Department; other little magicians prove that the hand is quicker than the eye when exploring the pockets of the fallen...