Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corpus Delicti. In Sydney, Australia, police charged Andrew See with assault, declared they had found the evidence in his raincoat pocket: his father-in-law's left...
...secret police which later came to be called the Okhrana (Guard). The inception of this dreadful institution took place in a scene of sentimental horror. When the Okhrana's first chief, Count Alexander Benckendorff, reported to the Czar for instructions, the monarch pulled a white handkerchief from his pocket and said: "Dry the tears of the oppressed. May your conscience and the conscience of your subordinates ever remain as stainless as this linen...
...Varsity goes against Dartmouth tonight in the Garden at 9:30 o'clock and thanks to Cousy, Kaftan, and Mullaney, the H.A.A. will pocket a quarter-share of the cash 13,000 patrons push under the box-office windows. Holy Cross meets Colgate in the crowd-drawing opener...
Keyholer Walter Winchell, claiming a "scoopee (we hope)," gave the rumor currency by a second-hand report that 34-year-old Frank Handy, son of the publisher of the Ypsilanti (Mich.) Press, "has the engagement ring in his pocket now, waiting for [Margaret's] uh-huh." Washington society began to envision a White House wedding;* some even speculated about its political usefulness...
...being slow-witted, reached in my pocket and handed him one," said Poindexter. Prosser then pocketed the bill, "sat back, looked smug, and smiled," and the whole class burst into laughter...