Word: pail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal law against dumping garbage into U. S. waters. Around 10 o'clock, as he eased his motor sampan under the overhanging stern of the Dollar Steamship Lines steamer, President Coolidge, he obtained first-hand evidence. A Chinese mess boy leaned over the rail and dumped a pail of swill, "cabbage, orange peel, celery, tea leaves and water," squarely on Inspector Arthur's head...
Celebrating what she called her 46th* birthday with a jolly, jampacked jubilee in Los Angeles' Angelus Temple, Evangelist Aimee ("Dear Sister") Semple McPherson romped out in front of her congregation appropriately dressed as a milkmaid, carrying a glistening pail brimful of milk. Pals and paid hands on the stage were treated to drinks. When the pail was empty, Sister Aimee began to sing (see cut), then took up a collection, dumped it in the pail...
From the time when Beery, fortified by gulps of gin from a water pail, cuts a tumor out of Lady Q's right forefoot, there is not much doubt about how Stablemates will end. However, before the climactic race, enough has happened to the chief personages involved to make any reasonably susceptible cinemaddict as worried as though he had a good-sized bet on the outcome. Good shot: Beery and Rooney pulling a harrow to pay for a night's lodging while Lady Q romps playfully in the next field...
...Oregon's Deschutes County last week, forest patrolmen, investigating a puff of smoke in the woods, found a hot meteorite imbedded in a tree. They described it as ''the size of a ten-quart water pail." Latest reports: no sale...
...dirty as any play U. S. playgoers have seen. In 13 cities, from Albuquerque, N. Mex. to Boston, Mass., its producers have had to pay lawyers to fight local censorship. In Chicago, where a brief filed in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the play "a garbage pail of indecent dialogue and degenerate exhibitionism," legal defense cost nearly $75,000. As advertising it was cheap...