Word: bucketful
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...Prison's Convict No. 15870 showed a hunched cellmate, a corner of the jailyard where straw-hatted inmates raked grass. Most arresting was a series of pencil sketches by Sylvia Carlisle of the Reformatory for Women in Framingham, Mass. depicting such routine incidents as The Rising Bell, The Bucket Line, Gymnasium, The Hospital. The anonymity of the convict's life she expressed by failing to draw features on any of her figures' faces. Even a starched-capped keeper with pince-nez and key-ring had no nose, no eyes, no mouth...
...Waupun's hospital when Inmate Thomas Votcas upset his night bucket attendants decided to "housebreak" him. One bound and sat on him while another seized his ears, bumped and rubbed his face in the muck. When his face was bleeding and thoroughly besmirched they tossed him on a cot and went away...
...evicted families promptly settled down in squalor within two blocks of their old homes. If whole areas are reclaimed, slumdwellers swarm into whole new areas, blighting them like locusts. Nevertheless, the PWA has earmarked $25,000,000 for Manhattan slum-clearance -a very small drop in a billion-dollar bucket. The State has authorized the setting up of a Municipal Housing Authority and 5,000 CWA workers in an exhaustive survey spent the winter slumming. No plans have yet been adopted. The Housing Authority has the power of eminent domain but in Manhattan courts fat awards in condemnation proceedings...
...distractions were getting under way and the riots in Vienna were monopolizing the front pages of the Press, French constabulary in Beirut, Syria should have arrested Elie Sacazan. A second Stavisky is Swindler Sacazan, director of one of Stavisky's companies. Swindler Sacazan founded two banks and a bucket shop in Paris, all of which collapsed for a loss of approximately $22,500,000 to French investors. Twenty-three indictments have been brought against him in the past six years. He was sentenced to two years in jail in Algiers, not a day of which has he served...
...four-year total close to 1,000. Pacific Coast. California and Washington lead their respective divisions of the conference, but Southern California provides more entertainment. Southern California's waterboy is none other than Irvine ("Cotton") Warburton, phenomenal little quarterback of the football team. Besides tending the bucket, sponging the faces of sweaty players, he serves as a sort of assistant to Coach Justin ("Sam") Barry, lately of Iowa. One of Coach Barry's stratagems...