My grandma got dressed in her Sunday best, put on her black shoes, hoisted her hard, black pocketbook, adjusted her hat, and waited by the door for my father to drive her to the polls.
Mr. Lieberman's political skills are said to have come from his gregarious mother, still a campaign trail presence, ensconced in a wheelchair, a large black pocketbook across her lap.
"In my book," she said, "I talk about where I rush out of the house with my black carry-on, and I have two black pocketbooks, and the play opens with her" — Agnetha — "with one big black bag and a carry-on, rushing out to do a lecture".
"Do you ever try to just do it... faster?" a woman with a black Yves Saint Laurent pocketbook asked.
Space was tight, and I couldn't find anywhere to put my sludgy boots except practically on top of her black leather pocketbook.
Three in four support school prayer.The Republicans might even trawl for black votes with pocketbook issues.
"This implies that because upper-income consumers have, relatively speaking, more discretionary income than other Americans, they may decide to open up their pocketbooks for Black Friday, but then spend less as the holidays continue," writes Dennis Jacobe, Gallup's chief economist.
And, experts say, there has always been some measure of discord between economically disadvantaged black feminists, who often emphasize pocketbook issues, and more affluent white feminists, with a greater focus on charged political issues like abortion rights.
When mother went to pay for the check, she said, "Oh, my lord, I left my pocketbook on the black sand beach!" Driving 60 miles per hour, I reached a thatched hut and two small children swinging mother's handbag that had her passport, airline ticket and money.
The sunlight reflecting brightly off the black glass of windshields, the tin fenders, the pocketbooks of the women in that after-Mass crowd.
Mr. Danieli, an instructor at Yeshiva University, was not alone: all night long, men in black skullcaps and swishing fringes, women with designer pocketbooks, and young men in denim and T-shirts headed into Old Montefiore Cemetery in Cambria Heights to squeeze in one last prayer in the fleeting days before Yom Kippur, which began on Friday evening and ends on Saturday evening.
