Word: pouches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dangled a tiny airplane. For a moment it swung there perilously; then its motor took hold and it careered away, maneuvering all about the big dirigible, sniffing at air pockets, nosing through patches of heathery cloud, like a baby kangaroo which had got out of its mother's pouch. Presently the dirigible flashed a signal; the long metallic umbilical cord was lowered again and the airplane whined close, ready to try the hazardous feat of mooring. While both crafts drowsed along at the same speed, the plane was hooked by a special apparatus, hoisted to the trapeze, lifted back...
...assembled by invitation at No. 71 Broadway, Manhattan, In the offices of Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation. Among their distinguished numbers were Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy; George W. Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney General; W. H. Pouch, President of the National Association of Credit Men; William E. Knox, President of the American Bankers' Association; C. K. Woodbridge, President of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World; Governor Silzer of New Jersey; Judge Ewing Cockrell of Missouri, one of the organizers of the Missouri Crime Survey...
...Presidential mail bag?a great leathern pouch holding two bushels of mail, that has served for nearly 25 years and went to President Taft at Beverly and President Wilson at Shadow Lawn?arrived with its first load of documents...
...glass sponges (similar to ordinary sponges but with fine glass skeletons) and volcanic rock. A traveling net was likewise used, attached to the cable at varying depths. This brought up a number of large-mouthed fishes (i.e., mouths huge as compared to bodies), a male pipefish with a brood pouch full of eggs, giant red shrimps, several octopi, fish with eyes on the end of stalks and a rare specimen, believed to be hitherto undescribed-a fish with scales resembling hair or feathers...
...find that his lounging costume consisted of a brown-and-rose pullover sweater, heavy gold bands on each wrist to support watch, bangles, etc., and five massive rings. As he talked, he fidgeted. His glass had kept dropping from its bed between the fold of his brow and the pouch of his eye. He waved long arms, discussed his music in French and German...