Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indianapolis Firpo staggered under the first serious blow he has encountered in the U. S.-a $2,000 jolt in the pocketbook from Jack Druley, who promoted his exhibition with Joe Downey, of Columbus, O. The furry financier, who saw this wallop coming when Druley paid only half of his $4,000 guarantee before the gong clanged, tried to dodge it by sulking in his corner and refusing to box more than four rounds unless the balance forthcame. This sulkiness prompted more than 10,000 Indianapolitans (already infuriated by Governor McCray's decree that the go must...
...family wealth has hurt him in his public career. He complains that people say of him that there is no reason for his playing a fiddle, since he does not need the money. Others hold that he has got to the top not through musicianship, but through his pocketbook. The violinist states with a little emphatic bitterness that he has refused to take any financial aid from his family since the day that he first played in public. He insists that he is simply a musician as any other musician, and that he lives precisely as any other musician does...
Mason, who was returning from a dance, discovered the man in his room and immediately gave chase. Dropping a pocketbook containing money and a Corpona typewriter taken from room 133, the thief dashed from the building up Plympton Street and finally made his escape by darting into an alley back of the University Squash Courts. A careful search of the rooms in Westmorly revealed the fact that the robber had succeeded in making off with a large amount of money and several valuable pieces of jewelry...
...citizen were free to obey or to violate them as he chose. Governor Miller recalls people to their senses with the sharp reminder that law is law. To disobey the prohibition law because you don't like it is to give a hold-up man license to take your pocketbook because he doesn't like the law against stealing...
...least, it would seem that the doctrine of keeping higher education within reach of the pocketbook of the poor has been reduced to an absurdity when its principal effect is the pauperizing of the rich. SUMMERFIELD BALDWIN...