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...Dancer whickers. "When he's talkin' like that, he wants his food," says Murray. Two quarts of oats go into the cerise and white feed bucket. The Dancer is a "good doer," i.e., a copious eater?about ten quarts of grain and extras a day. As the horse eats, Murray begins to whistle. "This is how I make him make water," he explains...
...said I was a prophet of gloom. But about three weeks later the Wall Street Journal came out with an article about the trouble the auto industry was having. What is the sense of closing our eyes to the facts? You can't take something out of the bucket unless it's in the bucket...
...inch salutes. The force of the explosion probably exceeded ten megatons (500 Hiroshimas). It sent a radioactive cloud billowing to a height that may have exceeded 20 miles. In the thin air of the stratosphere, it seems likely, the cloud slumped over like water tossed from a bucket...
...side of the stage. In the Godfrey manner, Lewis chuckles interminably at his own gags, and talks heedlessly until he is cut off the air by the station break. But Robert Q. is not too proud to imitate other stars. A day after Charm Boy Garry Moore had a bucket of water dumped on his songstress Denise Lor while she was warbling Stormy Weather, Lewis dumped a bucket of simulated snow in the face of his songstress Jaye P. Morgan while she sang Let It Snow...
...degree in electrical engineering. At Columbia he also met Ruth D. Masters, a student of international law, whom he married in 1931. Still, his advance in the Navy was slow, and when he got his first and only seagoing command, it was the minesweeper Finch, a decrepit rust bucket operating in China waters. Called back to Washington from Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines (where his hard-driving efficiency had made whole shiploads of enemies), he was assigned to the Electrical Section of the Bureau of Ships. By the time he got command of the section...