Word: vestpocket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...such stuff is the Share-the-Wealth movement. Secretary Christenberry carries a black notebook in his vestpocket in which he keeps tally. He says there are 27,431 clubs in the U. S. with 4,684,060 members. Even he probably does not know within a million or two how much truth there is in that figure...
...Philadelphia, where a musician in the audience once accused him of playing on a trick trumpet, enraging him so that he smashed it, sent out for a new one before he would go on with the show; in Manhattan where he once took a phial from his vestpocket, drank the contents (said to be dope) with a swaggering toast to the crowd...