Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the usual type of man appointed to the Court of St.James's. He was born in Cambridge, Mass. He was educated at Harvard. He is wealthy enough not to mind the fact that his salary of $17,500 will, at London, be only a drop in the bucket of his expenses. On the other hand, he is not a literary man, nor is he a publisher, a politician, an editor, a lawyer-but a manufacturer...
...Barrymore, overacting, became monotonous. Better performances were offered by Adrienne Morrison as the bucket-shop decoy and particularly by Alan Brooks, expensive boy friend...
...truth, as a library or as a mere collection, it is the smallest of drops in the largest of buckets. The splash is, therefore, proportionate in size. But why did the drop make the splash in the bucket at this particular time? The only satisfactory answer that can be vouchsafed is that this is the 155th anniversary of the great Emperor's birth, or the 103rd anniversary of his death. If neither of these answers is correct, the drop must have dropped not by any conscious cooperation of the publishers, but simply because it dropped...
...have never met a kindly old man, if you have never seen the village band in full regalia, with Fezes and substantial "cuds", if you've never heard a farm-hand quartet around the old oaken bucket, nor seen simple Uncle Josh cavorting in a palatial New York Mansion, if you don't believe that "ridin" over the New Hampshire Hills is better than a Turkish bath, or if you haven't stamped or clapped at a Virginia Reel in the kitchen of the farm, if you haven't seen and heard and done all the things that...
...that the Government would, if it received no support, continue with the building of the Singapore base (TIME, Dec. 24). House of Lords. Their Lordships were somewhat disturbed by a violent thunderstorm and a leak in the roof above the Strangers' Gallery. Plumbers were on strike, so a bucket brigade was formed, to prevent the floor of the chamber, in which a discussion of the budget was in progress, from being flooded. Their Lordships' toes were thus kept...