Word: pockets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tripod and plate-box. In many cases the cameraman, boldly marked with the badge of his trade, is barred at gates where the newsman, with camera concealed, may saunter in. As Jack Price says: "Nowadays a reporter can still carry his cane and have a camera tucked in his pocket." The adventures of news photographers can be fully as thrilling as those of newshawks. Ingenuity comes quite as much into play. Jack Price thinks the most ingenious stunt he ever saw was ''Crazy Johnny" O'Brien's, at a Mineola murder trial. Cameras were barred from...
...Manhattan the Empire State Building had its official baptism-by-suicide when Frederick Eckert, 33, with a German prayerbook and two religious medals in his pocket jumped from the tower (103rd floor), landed on the 87th floor setback. (In 193, before the building was done, a discharged workman leaped down an elevator shaft from the 102nd floor, landed on the 80th...
Shouted back a Spanish workman, "You are a good man!" Impulsively the Premier reached into his coat pocket, extracted a homely briar of the type which all France calls a "Herriot pipe," tossed it to the workman...
...newsdealer asked for "Mr. Toomer,'' who came out on the porch. While the dealer angrily demanded that Toomer pay him for supplying all the Manhattan newspapers for the past two weeks, the strangers and posse appeared, surrounded Mr. Toomer, held him fast. In Mr. Toomer's pocket was found a .38 revolver. The strangers soon identified themselves as detectives and Toomer admitted that he was notorious Arthur Barry, 42, the slickest second-story man in the East...
...They gave him $700 for his work and a $5,000 policy on his life. Next year he died. In 1859 two policyholders of Northwestern Mutual were killed in a wreck that almost wrecked the company. President S. S. Daggett had to pay the claims out of his own pocket. Northwestern's assets are now $1,000,000,000, only $100,000,000 less than Mutual Life's. New President Cleary will receive $60,000 a year. His predecessor...