Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond lay musing in his Tower last evening and weaving many a journey for his gentle readers he received a call which was as a bucket of water to the fire in his hearth or as an assassin to those warm spirits who occupy his Sanctum in the mellow hours of the evening. It was from one of his superiors--and a voice much too harsh for the peace of his walls--advising the Vagabond to change his ways: To get out into the sun and feel from those deep philosophical thoughts which have darkened his journeys of late...
Making it hard for the shady is as prime an SEC principle as making it easy for the honest. Bucket shops, boiler rooms and the sell-&-switch racket are for the first time up against toothy Federal laws. But the downright crook is not so annoying as the shady dealer operating on the frontiers of legality. Last week Director of Registration Bane cracked down with a stop-order suspending sale of stock in a Tulsa concern called Wee Investors Royalty Co. Wee Investors proposed to sell its stock on a chain-letter basis. In the studied understatement of Mr. Bane...
...shabby rooms, while her husband hovered nearby, helpless, pitying, irritated. In the depths of her anguish she tried to find release in work, scrubbed the crumbling house from top to bottom. She worked until her hands grew limp, until she almost fainted each time she leaned over the scrubbing bucket, until she dropped asleep like someone struck down by a blow, but she could find no peace. A general strike, deeper worries over money, nagging delays and disappointments piled heavier burdens upon her. demoralized the shaken Fury household. There remained one last pain that Peter could cause her to break...
...have spent a number of evenings acquainting people with how to prepare oysters. I had a bucket of oysters sent to me from Louisiana the other night, and I was asked by a very fine bunch of my friends if I would not drop around with the New Orleans oysters and fry some of them for them in good Louisiana style and way. So, Mr. President, I bought a frying pan about 8 inches deep . . . and I bought a 10-pound bucket of cotton-seed-oil lard. ... I took the oysters, Mr. President, the way they should be taken...
Most big shopkeepers admit that a "loss leader" is sometimes good business. Customers attracted to a store by the cut-rate price of one product linger to buy other products on which the store can make a profit. But "loss leaders" become a large hole in the profit bucket when customers throng a store to buy only the "loss leader" and nothing else. Forcefully last week was this axiom brought home to scores of cut-rate storekeepers in Los Angeles, home of some of the fiercest price wars...