Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a farmer surveying a sugar maple for the right place to cut for sap, Seattle's paunchy, cigar-smoking Promoter Arthur J. Ritchie watches the public with a veiled and contemplative eye. This week Art Ritchie was watching a big one, and the sap bucket was filling up fast. Art Ritchie's newest idea: why not band the nation's Japanese-haters together and put the whole business on a paying basis...
Last year Promoter Ritchie drew a nice full bucket with a book entitled The Pacific Northwest Goes to War; he charged businessmen $200 a page for eulogy, $50 apiece for a picture, then sold copies for $5. Last winter he set out to raise $100,000 for a statue to Negro soldiers of World War II. That time he had to back off from the tree with an empty pail-Seattle's Negroes complained that the project was not their idea and wanted nothing...
Patter & Protests. Ever since 1934, when the Securities & Exchange Commission clamped down on razzle-dazzle bucket-shop operations in the U.S., more & more high-pressure share-pushers have hung out their shingles in Ontario, where securities legislation is liberal. Well aware that war wages have burned new holes in many pockets, these "wheedle whackers" have lately stepped up their blitz...
There was the privy, there the porkers' . pen. Here was the well, and through this mossy head Uprose the bucket, stately, oaken, red To slake the hearty thirsts of lusty men. Hardboiled, our sires. Their water should have been...
...their state-provided livelihoods, left themselves facing concentration camp or death. (One of them, Arne Thu. vicar of Vestby and veteran Indian missionary, died in a concentration camp at Grini last June after being forced to crawl hundreds of yards with his hands behind his back and a latrine bucket in his teeth, for the amusement of his quisling guards.) But all made clear that they would continue to carry on their work accepting "no directions as to how God's Word should be preached...