Word: pail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Come down to Yale at football time, at football time, at football time; Come down to Yale at football time (it isn't far from Vassar) And you will wander hand in hand with someone else's roommate, and Will drink a pail of Mory's ale (and oh, so near to Vassar...
...band playing "Kirkland." "Hit the Line for Kirkland," and "Ten Thousand Men of Kirkland," the gallant men of Smith Halls trooped, staggered, and meandered up to Adams, where they stood and shouted scurrilous things at their enemies. When Gold Coasters had responded in kind as well as with a pail of water, the Deacons about faced and marched home again, finishing the evening with a solid rendition of "Fair Kirkland...
...Peru, a lard seller in a village market refused to sell her whole pail of lard at once: if she did, she would have no excuse to stay at the market and gossip...
...rain (there is room for all kinds of weather on a 2,000-mile battle front), the Nazis had other excuses for the prolongation of the struggle. Wrote a German reporter attached to the Nazi Army: "This war is the driest of all wars. . . . Down deep with the pail-up it came with mire and mud. On to the next well. It yielded only a brownish broth . . . a field flask with drinking water . . . today in the East is worth more than anything that can happen to you. . . . We yearn for so much . . . for one hour without the din of battle...
Durable Spencer Tracy (Father Flanagan) splashes through this pail of tears with an undampened performance. Kazoo-voiced Mickey Rooney (the mayor) very nearly drowns. The paying customers, unfortunately, are not provided with rain checks...