Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offered the estimate. According to his estimate, Congress may sanely ask: "Shall we have one?or rather, shall we have the Mellon bill?" To speak of the Garner bill, or of the Longworth compromise (which was passed by the House) or of a soldier bonus would not be sense?pocketbook sense. But the opponents of the regular Republicans?Democrats and insurgents ?do speak of these things and do claim to be sane. Last week they set out to prove their sanity by disproving Mr. Mellon's estimate of the Government's purse...
...Wilson reelected): "The West has indeed spoken, and nothing better has happened in a generation than this shifting of the political balance to a section which still maintains the old ideals of the Republic, which is not owned by its pocketbook, and which has never made a god of its bank account. To elect a President without the sordid assistance of New York, and the hardly less sordid assistance of Illi- nois, would be a double triumph. Even to lose the Presidency by a small margin in such circumstances would be a moral victory that Mr. Wilson could always remember...
...city that lacks music in its pocketbook...
Accordingly they rushed to the address and were met by an indignant landlady who announced that she had found the animal a week ago Sunday teasing her cat in the back yard. In the mean time he had torn up a $25 pocketbook, a linoleum rug, and had slept in the puffed rice. The board she said would...
Chains. Three mountainous acts labor and bring forth the mouselike aphorism: "I wonder if, after all, morality isn't just a matter of viewpoint? "A nice mother's heart is lacerated and a slavish father's pocketbook insultingly proffered when their son's wild oat comes to light. The heroine, backed by an open-space brother of the slavish father, carries the day for righteousness with a fine mixture of scorn, patience, idealism. Few of the multitudinous lines are unfamiliar, yet Author Jules Goodman insists on driving the lot home with dogged repetition. Helen Gahagan is courageous under her heavy...