Word: bucketfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prototypes of the German beer garden springing up where your average New Yorker will bring his family. . . . We should and can have 5? beer. . . . I don't see the racketeer and the chiseler as problems to be considered. Their beer'll be only a drop in the bucket...
...roar of the fire. Reputedly last to leap was Captain René Schoofs of the Atlantique. "Thrice we thought he was dead!" cried an excited junior officer later. "Then suddenly he appeared out of the flames with burning clothes, his Annamite boy following him like a shadow with a bucket...
This week at Williamsburg, Va., whose Colonial charm the Rockefeller family has been busy restoring, opened another Rockefeller-built R-K-O film theatre seating 560 patrons. This property is a very tiny drop indeed in Mr. Rockefeller's bucket of show business holdings. Recently the Rockefellers acquired 100,000 shares of R-K-O securities "as a result of rental adjustments" at Radio City. Mr. Rockefeller is also the handle on a whip whose popper is another entertainment chain. He is reputed one of the largest stockholders in Chase National Bank. Chase National is the banking sponsor...
Woman's Shaving Tackle. Not forgetting its pedestrian readers the Guardian reported: "The most striking exhibit, from the hiker's point of view, is an 'ultra-lightweight week-end kit,' comprising rucksack, sleeping-bag, tent, a four-peg coat-hanger, a petrol-stove, frypan, water-bucket, a plate, cup, receptacles for food and drink, knife, spoon and fork, and electric torch, a pair of shoes, a tent pole, swimming suit, complete change of clothes, towels, soap, facecloth, shaving tackle, and toothbrush, the whole weighing slightly over ten and a half pounds...
...kilometre bicycle race was Attilio Pavesi of Italy. On his handlebars he had a bowl of soup, a bucket of water. In a bib that hung from his shoulders were a dozen bananas, cinnamon buns, jam, cheese sandwiches, spaghetti. Around his neck were two spare tires...