Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make any sound when they lost their holds and fell. I saw them drop off, but I didn't see them hit the ground. I wouldn't let myself look. I heard them hit though-I couldn't help that. It sounded like a bucket of water poured out on the deck. You know how that is—:just a splash...
...Among famed alumni: Fairfax and Lawrence Washington (nephews of George Washington) George Washington Parke Custis (adopted son), Reverdy Johnson, U. S. Attorney General (1849-50) under Zachary Taylor, and Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, national director of Prohibition, who when McDowell Hall caught fire in 1909, formed a bucket brigade, rushed into the burning building, saved the King William books from the fate of the John Harvard books in the Harvard fire...
...Kavanaugh who owns a large St. Louis coal company, all go and take their friends to Sportsman's Park every afternoon they can. Edward Magnus, a vice president of Diesel Engine Co., watches every game and takes his family twice a week. Paul Bowling, an official in Star Bucket & Pump Co., keeps a five-seat box for the members of his family and has not missed a game for five years. They, even more than Gabby Street, a man of 49, with a homely, angular face, who sits quietly in the dugout, not waving his score card like Connie...
...credit, the hoarding of $1,500,000,000 is only a drop in the bucket. The banks have no God-given right to deposits. More than 2.300 of them failed in the country last year, tying up $2,000,000,000. If people want to hoard, however foolish the desire, it's their business. After all. the thing is to keep the people from going broke...
...drop in the bucket compared with his returns upon the musicomedies Lady, Be Good, Oh Kay, Funny Face, Girl Crazy, Rosalie, Strike Up the Band and the current Of Thee I Sing (TIME...