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Word: pail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mining communities of America might attract attention by changing their names to ones suitable to their conditions. We suggest the following: Bare Creek, Empty Dinner Pail, Starving Children, Ragtown, Tattered Clothes, Hooverhit, Jobless, Empty Belly, Depression, Moaning Widows, Too-Weak-to-Weep, Turnip-greens, Nogrub, Patches, Mounting Debts, Sunken Eyes, Hollow Cheeks, Hungry Guts, Rickets, Scurvy, Pellagra, Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Miners' Miseries | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Agents of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals carry emergency kits wherever they go. To be ready for every accident which may befall an animal, the kits contain a horse blanket, a water pail, new bits, colic medicine, spirits of ammonia, iodine, tourniquets, adhesive tape, bandages, dusting powder for sores. But in winter if a cruelty preventer finds a horse scrambling for foothold on a slippery pavement, or one which has fallen on the ice, he is unable to help if he has not got some horse carpet-slippers. Last week the Society announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Horse Slippers | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...Centre Harbor, N. H., Daisy, a cow, drank from a 2-qt. pail, caught her horns on a hook, drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Commandant | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

Evidently the Prohibition broil is getting too hot for the politicians and they figure it better to jump out of the frying pan into the fire of hard times. The full dinner pail is accordingly held forth to tempt the working man away from the overflowing beer bucket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAND OLD PROSPERITY | 10/25/1930 | See Source »

Fordyce Drop Forge & Tool Factory. His first appearaace is as a common workman-though later he becomes general manager-going to his job with his dinner pail. The dinner pail is the size of an automobile crate and it contains a hogshead of coffee. From this point on the audience is relieved of all sense of proportion and reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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