Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distractions were getting under way and the riots in Vienna were monopolizing the front pages of the Press, French constabulary in Beirut, Syria should have arrested Elie Sacazan. A second Stavisky is Swindler Sacazan, director of one of Stavisky's companies. Swindler Sacazan founded two banks and a bucket shop in Paris, all of which collapsed for a loss of approximately $22,500,000 to French investors. Twenty-three indictments have been brought against him in the past six years. He was sentenced to two years in jail in Algiers, not a day of which has he served...
...four-year total close to 1,000. Pacific Coast. California and Washington lead their respective divisions of the conference, but Southern California provides more entertainment. Southern California's waterboy is none other than Irvine ("Cotton") Warburton, phenomenal little quarterback of the football team. Besides tending the bucket, sponging the faces of sweaty players, he serves as a sort of assistant to Coach Justin ("Sam") Barry, lately of Iowa. One of Coach Barry's stratagems...
...Dickie Moore), decides that she wants him back. She gets a job redecorating the home of his guardian Phillip Lawrence (Otto Kruger), sets out to replace his fiancée (Betty Lawford), who slinks through the story sneering at one & all. Innocently she eggs her son into spilling a bucket of fresh fish over the fiancée's dress, finally trades Count Mario for her son's guardian. Good sequence: Ann Harding watching her first lover take off on a flight to Bagdad which ends in a fatal crash a few seconds after the picture starts...
...threw down his milk bucket and went to Grinnell College. When he returned to farming it was as an owner. But every time he thought of the newspaper business his left eye twitched with excitement (a habit he still retains) and finally he got a partner to manage his Iowa farm and went to Redfield, S. Dak. (pop. 2,664) to edit a newspaper. At 30 he was made editor and manager of the influential Montana Farmer at Great Falls...
...CARNIVAL MURDER - Nicholas Brady-Holt ($2). Her throat cut by a dagger, the Fat Lady lies murdered in her tent. Rev. Eb. Buckle sloshes about in the rain, helping the constabulary. Beer, boiled beef and a bucket expose both the freak racket and the killer...