Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snatcher was last seen fleeing towards Thayer Hall with the pocketbook which contained "quite a good deal of money." Police believed the young thief to be the same bandit who committed a similar robbery Sunday night...
Winter's first snow seemed to have muffled summer's uneasy fears and forebodings (see BUSINESS). When Christmas shopping began last week on the day after Thanksgiving, the U.S. public demonstrated dramatically that it was still a game gang with a pocketbook...
Gradually the jitters passed. Somehow, the girls managed to sort out their bags, then moved on to the waiting taxis. Only one had to run back for her pocketbook...
...Little Judy relaxed. Her defense rested on this story: her pocketbook happened to be crammed with FBI secret papers on March 4, when she was arrested in New York, because she was going to study them for a civil service examination; some of the papers were her own notes for a novel she was going to write; she had made the tryst that winter night with Valentin Gubichev, Russian engineer employee of U.N., because she was in love with him and not for any purposes of espionage. Kelley questioned her about a previous meeting she had had with Gubichev...
...real endowment. If anybody doesn't have a million dollars but would like to put a smaller sum to good use, perhaps they'd like to endow the library or the chair of English literature. We'd be happy to make the namesake fit their pocketbook...