Word: walletful
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...members of Argentina's Economic Council, known to Buenos Aires' harried financial community as Los Muchachos (The Boys). While observers both in Argentina and Washington thought the new measures might be sound in principle, Los Muchachos had landed their fellow citizens a hard kick in the wallet...
...breaking into a cafe, despite his contention that he I) stumbled against the window, smashing two panes; 2.) entered "to leave my name and address"; 3) "was looking in the till for a pencil" when caught. In Chicago, John Moore, charged with trying to filch a policeman's wallet, explained: "I was sleepy, and my hand just kept moving toward his pocket...
...Atlantic Monthly, Mary Bromfield described life with her farmer-writer husband Louis (Malabar Farm) Bromfield. The contents of his pockets, she noted, were a collection "worthy of the pockets of Huckleberry Finn ... a wallet filled with checks he has forgotten to cash ... a trick pocketknife, a cigarette holder, a cigarette lighter . . . part of a package of fruit drops, a pair of Stork Club dice ... an immense quantity of loose silver . . . clippings from the ten or twenty magazines and newspapers he reads every day, as well as a collection of crumpled and soiled memoranda...
Weaver immediately ran for the police. When they returned to the scene of the crime they found the wallet, money inside, lying on the ground. Police conjectured that the bandits were scared away...
...quietly crept up behind them and before Jones could do anything he was forced to turn down Gray Street at gun point. On Gray Street a second man, his face covered by a white handkerchief with a thin brown border, joined the first thief. They took $15 from Jones' wallet leaving him with $10; they asked for both captives' watches, but then returned them...