Word: bucketfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never, so far as the Journal admits, repeated the experience with "Philine" or anybody else. Said he: "For the first time I have received a woman's favors, and frankly, compared to what the imagination assumes or expects, they are a small matter. It was like a bucket of cold water. . . . X is pretty and well made, and yet I said to myself: 'Is that all?' " "Philine" also was disappointed, in a different way. She wanted him to marry her, thought she could maneuver him into it, almost got him to agree, made a scene when...
...bowed grey head, his haggard face. Feelings in the audience were mixed. There were those who resented the Bishop's political apostasy in the last presidential campaign (he a Democrat campaigned for Hoover, to defeat Smith, the Wet). There were those who despised him for "gambling" through a bucket shop, those who revered him for his skillful, devious, successful fight for Prohibition laws, those who admired him no matter what...
...whether or not the committee on Episcopy accepted his explanation that he had not "gambled" in stocks, that he had been buying his securities on the instalment plan while he seemed to have been buying them on margin,* that he did not know that his "stock broker" was a bucket shop operator (since jailed). Here, too, the Bishop seemed fixed to "out smart" Mr. Daniels, by boldly demanding a full and complete investigation of the charges...
...members of the Harvard Square Deal Association, a group of undergraduates attempting to pay back the scrubwomen involved in the recent Widener Library "scandal", were halted temporarily in their publicity work on Saturday when police from the Brattle Square station seized a poster and a bucket that the members had placed on a lampost on Massachusetts Avenue and took the articles to the station-house...
...groups advertising a dance which it is going to give for the purposes of raising funds for the scrubwomen and has placed posters and buckets all over Cambridge in giving the affair publicity. One of the buckets, evidently one in which sympathizers were to throw their contributions, was hung on a lampost on Massachusetts Avenue, not far from Walter Hastings Hall. Captain M. J. Brennan, of the Cambridge station ordered two of his subordinates to seize the bucket and the poster in accordance with a city ordinance that prohibits the posting of advertisements on lamposts, telephone poles, and the like...