Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Munich, police arrested Merchant Georg Brunner, 50, for illegally owning and trying to peddle a suitcase full of government-confiscated Adolf Hitler memorabilia including: several autographed copies of Mein Kampf, an initialed steel pocket watch, three engraved Hitler-head coins made in honor of his 50th birthday, his World War I army identity card, his 1933 nomination as Chancellor...
...hymns sung to military marches composed by fierce Scots," or, for contrast, bucolic Bavarian waltzes. The form of the sermon, he says, never varies. "The [minister] leans on the pulpit and begins in a low voice, indistinct, sleepy. Slowly he becomes animated. He slips a hand in a pocket and tells an anecdote, two, three anecdotes, until the audience consents to smile a little. Then his tone warms up, the face of the orator turns purple, his voice becomes husky. He strikes the pulpit. He paces the platform, he brandishes supplicating or vengeful fists, and only sits down when...
...Chinese procession strode General Wu Hsiu-chuan, director of the U.S.S.R. and Eastern European Division of the Peking Foreign Office. Waiting at the airport customs shed Wu & friends found Russia's Jacob Malik. As he gave Wu the glad hand, Malik drew a sheaf of papers from his pocket and handed them to the Chinese leader. A few minutes later Wu distributed the same papers among waiting newsmen. On each sheet was a copy of what purported to be Wu's own first public statement to peace-loving people...
...Relapse contains, however, the brightest of his characters, the fatuous coxcomb Lord Foppington. All prance, prattle and fizz, Foppington is far more concerned about the location of a coat pocket than the loss of a wife.† British Actor Cyril Ritchard (Love for Love, Make Way for Lucia) blends a born sense of comedy with a brilliant sense of style. His Foppington is no mere lace-handkerchief dangler, but the eager performer of an idiotic role, with a need and a genius for catching the limelight. Ritchard understands that the key to Foppington and his kind is not an ambiguity...
Candidates for the institute must be young, healthy and devout, with some musical ability (to back up hymn-singing). Those who are unable to pay the $400 all-inclusive fee for a two-year course are taken free of charge, with pocket money included. So far, only two of the institute's 60 alumni have strayed from the evangelistic fold...