Word: pail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fenton is the head crook who terrorizes the town's leading banker. Lynn Overman is the secondary G-man whose murder is the signal for the grand roundup in the deserted factory in which police with machine guns exterminate their enemies. Most sadistic shot: gangsters pushing a dinner pail over Overman's ears before shooting him to death...
President Dixon Ryan Fox of Union College, at a Rotary Club conference in Rye, N. Y.: "The ideals of the average American may be summed up in two sentences: 'A full dinner pail' and 'The ability to show a full garbage pail...
Scene: a heath near Lowell House. Enter Mr. Westcott with pail of sour cream followed by witches. Thunder and lightning...
...milk his cows quicker if he took his. radio to the barn, tuned in on fast tempo music; Charles Nestor noticed the backs of his sheep were getting bare, investigation showed that swallows had picked wool therefrom to line their nests; Elmer Sweetdcw tapped his sugar bush, found a pail with whiskey in it next morning, reached into a knothole in the tree and pulled out a whiskey bottle placed there by a hired man years ago. He had drilled directly into the cork in tapping the tree. . . . HOWARD E. HAGGSTROM...
...against a deficit of $8,712,000 in 1931. But Mr. Avery continues as Gyp's president, a fact which lets him in for unmerciful attacks from disaffected Ward stockholders. Once they cartooned Montgomery Ward as a cow. U. S. Gypsum as a pail and Mr. Avery, as he said at a boisterous Ward stockholders' meeting last year, "in the flattering position of doing something about which I know nothing...