Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even have any high-school football experience. . . . I'll never forget the day one of our little fellows, a quarterback, came around with a new scoring play. . . . A little later, during practice, he was going hellity hoot. . . . As he dashed down the field, he stepped into a water bucket...
After six days of cruising around the sharply inclined pine track in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the huge, awkward bucket of roses which tradition requires the winner of a six-day bicycle race to carry around the track on his handlebars, went to the French-Belgian team of Letourner & Debaets. winners of four such contests in the last two months. Second were Schoen & Brocardo, third Georgetti & Hill...
...tropical disease of sudden onset, long convalescence, which causes severe pains in head, muscles, bones and joints. Other names: dengue, dandy fever, giraffe fever, bucket fever, knockel-koorts...
From this you will see that the vision of me hanging around a barnyard with a bucket in my hand waiting for some old dairy cow to drop a calf is rather ridiculous. Certainly there is nothing in such a picture to impress one with the purity of our product or the desirability of taking such a mess into one's peritoneal cavity...
...mayor, Ezekiel Cobb comports himself like a combination of Fiorello La Guardia and Charlie Chan. He says: "Honesty without experience is as water with no bucket to carry it in-Ling Po." He sets out to gain experience by discharging every dishonest employe in the city government, awarding a garbage disposal contract to the lowest bidder instead of to the grafter who expects it. When outraged politicians slip a package of incriminating bonds into his safe deposit vaults, Ezekiel Cobb decides to use brusque methods. He rounds up every malefactor in Stockport, locks them in a cellar, threatens to have...