Word: pocketable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1920
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...forced to the verge of charity by only a few days of joblessness. The unskilled laborer often cannot earn enough to save; the skilled laborer can. Ever since I faced the situation of having to get a position as an unskilled worker before the twenty-five dollars in my pocket was exhausted or else, according to a pledge, live the life of a hobe for six months, I have better comprehended the terrible fear of joblessness that haunts the mind of the unskilled laborer and consequently forces him to restrict output so as not to work himself...
...sophistication of his or her ten or twelve years of age plays the races, shoots craps and drinks cocktails, is offered in "The Children's Hour in a Modern Nursery." "Marriage a la Mode," "The Roof Tops of New York," and "Keystone Beach" are the other pocket comedies, which afford the principals plenty of chances to gain the hearty approval of the audience. The last-named has a most realistic movie "chase" of hero, heroine, villain, comedians and bathing girls, the effect of an actual movie being very creditably achieved...
...last week means simply this: every Harvard man back of the team, every man, with a ticket to New Haven in his pocket, ready to contribute all he can to overcome the handicap of facing a fighting mad Yale team on its home field. The game is not won yet; it won't be won at all if Harvard supporters minimize the task that is ahead of the Crimson team...
...first thoughts are for his stomach, especially in these days when his pocket book is scarcely fat enough to fill it. When we must pay thirty cents for a ham sandwich, ten cents for a cup of coffee, and twenty cents for a piece of Washington Pie, we wonder if the days of highway robbery have entirely disappeared...
This scheme, it is reported, has already been put into effect, and several payments have already been made. But the plan seems to us to be based on an unsound economic theory, to the effect that a man's pocket book is as corpulent as his person. The facts scarcely seem to bear this out. Most of our millionaires (take Mr. Rockefeller for example) do not come under the scope of such an excess profits tax as this. Most of them are of medium build; some of them are actually thin. And in this hot weather, it is not likely...