Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dairymaid Ellen's suitors. A Dublin sleuth slipped into David's little whitewashed hut and hid under a bed for many hours. There he overheard a whispered conversation between David O'Shea and his sister. Sister O'Shea went out of the cabin with a bucket containing one yellow woolen sock and a leather gaiter, which she burned. That was enough for the sleuth. He searched the grounds and found parts of Ellen O'Sullivan's smallclothes hidden in David O'Shea's hedge. Assistants pulled the other sock, the other gaiter...
...suits are based on substantially the same statements, viz: i) that Bishop Cannon was visiting his secretary Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum (his present wife) in her apartment on the night before his first wife died; 2) that Bishop Cannon retained Attorneys Campbell Bascom Slemp and John Price to defend Bucket-Shopper H. L. Goldhurst, with whom the Bishop had dealt and who was subsequently imprisoned for using the mails to defraud. The Best Brain also ascribes to Publisher Hearst a carefully ordered campaign to involve him in the financial difficulties of his son, Richard M. Cannon. California schoolmaster...
...some x-rays at a crystal, that is, a conglomerate of pool balls. If the x-rays were waves, as had been the general conception, the waves would have wriggled between the atoms without displacing them and without being changed by them. It would have been as though a bucket of water had been swished across the pool table baize...
...earnest effort to economize, War Department realists expected little to result. The upkeep of all Army posts is only $20,695,990 and the abandonment of 40 of them, even if Congress consented, would save only about $2,000,000, a small drop out of a billion-dollar bucket. Coast artillery posts may be chopped but the War Department has up its sleeve as a defense substitute a $100,000,000 program for 14-in. railroad guns firing from 100 shorepoints. Cavalry stations may go but the cost of mechanizing that service with $75,000 "combat cars" instead of horses...
...Works last week. Three score of the self starved strikers dropped from exhaustion, were carried to a hospital. Hunger striking was not in the contract of the chimney sitting printer. Sympathizers threw him rice balls, hard boiled eggs and apples. Then he was provided with a rope and a bucket, hauled up plentiful nutriment hand over hand...