Word: pail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cane which has a horn at one end, for no reason. Chased by the mate, he dives behind the curtain of a Punch & Judy show and pokes his shaggy head out in expressions of derision and despair. Groucho Marx makes friends with a gangster, throws a revolver into a pail of water. "It was necessary to drown the gat," he says, "but we saved a little gitten." Later he undertakes to discuss Love: "When love goes out the door money flies innuendo...
...fiercest lion, got into a cage which a keeper was scrubbing. The keeper "did the one thing that would save his life. He took the lion completely by surprise. He emitted a blood-curdling yell, sprang into the air and with all his strength hurled his water-filled pail and his wet mop full in the face of the astonished beast. Hannibal was so unnerved by this attack that he tried to beat a hasty retreat over the slippery floor. His feet flew out from under him and he turned an undignified somersault back into his sleeping den. Poor Hannibal...
...greatest show of courage and resistance comes when it is placed in a pail of water, and held down, beneath the narrow wooden board...
...sister was born little Willie was tethered to a tree along with a calf, and there was a pail of milk close at hand, for which they both struggled, and into which he tumbled and was nearly drowned." Thus Mrs. Edith Gittings Reid, wife of Harry Fielding Reid, Johns Hopkins professor of dynamic geology & geography, begins The Great Physician: A Life of Sir William Osler, published last fortnight.- Her book is briefer (293 pp.) than Harvey Williams Cushing's two-volume year-by-year life (1,413 pp.). Yet she gives a full picture of "the greatest physician...
...dinner guest of the Union League Club, high temple of conservative Republicanism.* Just before the President arrived at the Bellevue Stratford, mounted police had to break up a demonstration of unemployed people and hosiery strikers who flashed big placards labeled: MR. HOOVER. WHERE IS YOUR FULL DINNER PAIL? More polite were members of Stanford University's track team (see p. 28) who, stopping at the Ritz-Carlton across the street, stood out on the sidewalk to see their alma mater's potent trustee (see p. 36). At the Union League dinner the President was presented with a life...