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Word: bucket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadway Shadows is a painfully stupid play which Playwright Willard Earl Simmons has completely inundated with the contents of the old hokum bucket. Surrounded by ineptitudes of property, dialog and direction, the hero is purported to be a Social Registerite. He has left home to live in a $100-a-month "tenement" near Broadway because his rich father, who looks like a holidaying subway guard, believes his son to have raised a check. The young socialite at last finds happiness by marrying another inmate of the apartment house whose daughter-acted by Baby Marie Polizzotto-bakes a cake throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 14, 1930 | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Just for a bucket...

Author: By C. C. P. and D. R., S | Title: THE CRIME | 3/18/1930 | See Source »

...there at her bucket was Endy...

Author: By C. C. P. and D. R., S | Title: THE CRIME | 3/18/1930 | See Source »

...several days, the best minds of Ihlamour bent to the task of extracting Yusuf's duck. Scheme A was to lower a large shallow bucket down the well in the hope that the duck would swim into it. Several times the duck did so, but always flopped out before the bucket could be hauled to the surface. Scheme B was to tie fish lines to hard indigestible crusts of bread in the hope that Yusuf's duck would swallow line and crust, allow himself to be hauled to the surface. Yusuf's duck did not. Scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Duck Catastrophe | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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