Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House the final minutes wore away without controversy. A few minutes before the closing hour, seven p. m., the clock was stopped and the members gathered together and sang Merrilly We Roll Along, The Old Oaken Bucket, Sweet Adeline, My Country 'Tis of Thee. Speaker Gillett announced that the session was at an end, and wished the members "pleasant vacation." "And reelection!" shouted the members as the gavel fell...
...only have few of the bucket-shop cases of two years ago resulted in prison sentences, but many of the cases have not yet even come up for trial. In cases where convictions have been secured, usually the jail sentences have run less than three years...
Undergraduates, however, are still showing a lack of interest. The College has picked up considerably, but the 20 names submitted by them are a mere drop in the bucket of nearly 1000 stigmatic words submitted from nearly every state in the Union, and from England, the Bahamas and Hawail. Boston leads the cities and Massachusetts the states, with New York a close second...
...sharp rise in future contracts for cotton has greatly stimulated speculative interest throughout the South. The result has been that unscrupulous individuals in Manhattan have organized "odd-lot" cotton exchanges in order to bucket the orders of small customers. Many of the latter live at considerable distances from New York City, and are through inexperience unable to distinguish between the primary cotton market on the New York Cotton Exchange, and the mushroom imitations of it which crooks are so frequently ready to establish during a cotton boom. Officers of both the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges are cooperating...
...right to kick the bucket over merely to gratify my own personal desire to be absolutely honest and sincere...