Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capt. Fred Nutter, 86, seemed less angry than reproachful. He admitted he had whacked his brother with a wrench. But first, said he, Capt. Edgar Nutter had attacked him with a slop-bucket. "Self-defense. . . . He's younger than me," said Capt. Fred Nutter. He added that his brother had been "spoiled," that "it's a damn lie, everything he said...
Over the Hill (Fox) is old-fashioned cinema, dealing sadly with filial ingratitude and the poorhouse. Its story is simple, straight from the old hokum bucket: Ma Shelby (Mae Marsh) rears her children in a sacrificial way, tenderly requiring them to wash behind the ears and eat their porridge. When they mature, it is found that her ministrations have spoiled them, or else that they have inherited unhappy characteristics from their father, a bootlegger but a bad provider. One of the sons becomes a pompous hack-painter, married to a sleek and dressy strumpet. Another is an enfeebled hypocrite, whining...
Seated beside the General on a sofa, Guest Kuh surveyed four rubber plants in pots, four cuspidors, a large German clock, sumptuous Persian rugs, rich curtains, and a table on which tea was sumptuously laid in a silver service, complete with biscuits, fruit, cakes and a bucket of cracked ice surrounding French champagne...
...came to admire the work of Tintoretto that police were assigned to keep the crowds moving. Proud of the picture, the Silberman Galleries' doorman, a Eugene Herr, was conscience stricken to realize that the show window was not so clean as it ought to be. He got his bucket. Late comers expecting to see Susanna in the nude saw instead Mr. Herr in his overalls. They raged...
...know how to treat children; you just let them cry.' And do you know what they're liable to do if a child in the coop keeps on crying? . . . Why, some one is just as apt as not to walk up to the cage and throw a bucket of water on it. ... And do you know what will happen if things are too quiet in the cage? Why, someone will scare up a lost child. A mother will send her child for a glass of water. Two or three girls will follow...