Word: bucketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result was that Governor Preus, casting a bucket of cold water on the hopes of the regular Republicans, called a special election on July 16. Now the vacant seat in the Senate will fall to the winner of a three-cornered fight. On one side are the Republicans, not even unanimous among themselves, on account of insurgents in their own ranks; on another are the Democrats; on still a third are the Farmer-Laborites...
...reaching decision was handed down by Judge Julian W. Mack in the Federal Court, by which State prosecutors can hereafter examine the books of bankrupt brokerage firms for evidence of bucketing and other forms of criminal conversion. Hitherto State and city officials have found it impossible to obtain convictions against bucket-shoppers, who have claimed that such an examination of their books would be unconstitutional, and the equivalent of compelling them to testify against themselves...
...climbing cost (to the public) of crime has been estimated, after exhaustive research by the National Surety Company of New York, at $30 per American individual for the past year. The total price paid by the nation for burglary, forgery, and bucket shops exceeds three billion dollars, and is approximately equivalent to the internal revenue receipts of the Government for the fiscal year 1922. It is greater by half a billion dollars than the imports of the country...
Radio is transforming the otherwise harmless air into a veritable bucket-shop bedlam, with twenty-one thousand transmitting stations between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande. The government itself has begun to display distress signals. The Kellogg-White Federal Radio Control Bill has been introduced to bring some sort of order out of the present chaos of jazz-bands, sermons, crop reports, and sporting syndicates running simultaneously on the same wave lengths...
...college,--it is possible to "sit like a pensive bucket and be pumped into" by an enthusiastic but sometimes tiring professor; and it is equally possible although more difficult to wrestle with the hands of the pump and get the benefit of the exercise...