Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effects. Summer, 1946 would be super-colossal. There would be more trips, more sunburn, more automobile wrecks, more beach bonfires, picnics, fancy diving and moonlit romances than ever before. The kissing in canoes, front-porch swings, automobiles, motorboats and tree-shaded lanes had already used up lipstick by the bucket. Baseball was wonderful again and dance bands were improving-grandstands and pavilions were crowded. Summer stock and borsch circuit vaudeville were splashed with big names. If the fishing was not the best in history, a million mosquito-bitten men would never admit...
Doris Duke ("Richest-Girl-in-the-World") Cromwell got a drop-in-the-bucket back on her 1944 income tax; she had paid $29,968 too much...
...with Alabama's primary campaign. One candidate afforded a spark of interest and amusement. He was 37-year-old James Elisha ("Big Jim") Folsom, a 6 ft. 8 in. shouter of tall promises, who campaigned for the governorship with a five-piece hillbilly band, a mop and a bucket ("to clean up the State Capitol"), and P.A.C.'s blessing. He had run for various offices four times, had been elected only once-to be a delegate to the 1944 Democratic National Convention (where he plunked for Henry Wallace...
...widower and war veteran, went right on campaigning, accompanied by his daughters, aged 6 and 3. They sat at his side during his speeches, tugged at his trousers if they got tired of listening. Then Folsom would bring the band in to play, or pass the bucket for campaign contributions ("I ain't got no managers, except...
...track barns are tinder dry. The one housing Elizabeth Arden Graham's horses at Arlington Park, near Chicago, was no exception. Flames, from a fire caused by an unwatched electric heater, licked over the loose straw bedding and lapped at wooden partitions. A Negro groom threw a single bucket of water, saw that it was futile and made a beeline to save the horses...