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...arrived and I began to get a little worried and nervous, in fact I threw my new pocket watch out the window and put my cigarette stub in my vest. But one small glass of Scotch fixed that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

Last Saturday, playing on a pocket-handkerchief floor in New Haven, the Crimson poloists took the Yales 17 to 12. This Saturday, when they will have their usual elbow room, even cautious Captain Chester Sargent, grizzled veteran of years of army polo who is coaching the Harvard malletmen for the first time this year, has to admit the cards look stacked for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

...when ruddy, jovial Jim Curley was Mayor of Boston, a city water connection burst, flooding the premises of General Equipment Corp. From Ernest Wr. Brown Co., its insurance agency. General Equipment collected $70,199.29. The agency salvaged $15,488.15 worth of equipment, was left $54,711.14 out of pocket. Thereupon the agency, represented by Lawyer Santosuosso. sued the City, settled its claim out of court for $85,000 of taxpayers' money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Consciousness of Guilt | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...four-wheel-driven energy. When he laughs he still gets red all over. Pompous but kindly, he likes to lecture his men. When he is preparing a lecture, his wife has advance notice-he practices while shaving. Then a problem bothers him, he puts a compass in his pocket, strikes out into the woods until his mind clears. Whenever he passes an F.W.D. truck he tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Drive | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...consists simply of splitting up our forces in three columns, and while one of these engages the enemy's attention with a vigorous frontal attack, the two others work around each end of the enemy's positions to meet behind them and close the mouth of the pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Pocket Maneuver | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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