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Word: pail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Men Without Names | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

Scene: a heath near Lowell House. Enter Mr. Westcott with pail of sour cream followed by witches. Thunder and lightning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/27/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1935 | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gypsum & Deflation | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

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