Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning the package, after having stood all night in a bucket of water, was opened. It contained about a pound of powdered dynamite. Meanwhile in the envelope had been found the following letter...
Napoleon bestrode his charger on the original Third Reader coyer, wherein quotations from the Bible were introduced, together with The Old Oaken Bucket and other verse, instructive articles such as "How a Fly Walks on the Ceiling," and the splendid tale of "Harry and His Dog Frisk...
...Berlin, Captain Schneider, bold keeper of the Zoo, with a bucket in one hand, approached a matronly lioness named "Italy," squeezed rhythmically, left her cage with his bucket half full of lioness milk...
...House of Shadows. This last drop in the season's bucket of mystery plays makes no great splash. It explains a haunted house tenanted by a mad miser. For years he had booed off all visitors until the hero and. heroine dared his confines. Especially unfortunate is the fatty dialogue that weighs the play down with uneventful explanation...
...expelled from the Stock Exchange. He jumps out of an office window so high in the empyrean that he must have been antique when he reached the sidewalk. Thus, only sorrow dogs the successful manipulator. As for the unsuccessful, their troubles are indicated by frequent mention of "bucket shops." The play itself suffers from diffusion and repetition, though, like the stock market, it has its moments. The author, one James N. Rosenberg, is a bankruptcy lawyer...