Word: pailful
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...dirty as any play U. S. playgoers have seen. In 13 cities, from Albuquerque, N. Mex. to Boston, Mass., its producers have had to pay lawyers to fight local censorship. In Chicago, where a brief filed in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the play "a garbage pail of indecent dialogue and degenerate exhibitionism," legal defense cost nearly $75,000. As advertising it was cheap...
Relying on two glockenspiels for the melody and gaining terrific power from its percussion section comprised of a pair of cymbals, several drums, and a pail, rendered notable offerings of "Ten Thousand Men of Kirkland" and other well-known Deacon marching songs...
...other girls are jealous of my having to do for Prince Charming. That awful Mrs. O'Hemingway--I have yet to find out who is her husband--hangs around all the time; comes into the room, yelling, "Is Mrs. Goodman here? Oh, Mrs. Goodman, did you get the pail and mop I forgot to put in the closet? I just wanted to see if . . . " Then she looks around to spot Prince Charming, and if he happens to be there, she flushes and pretends to be embarrassed. The vixen...
...work. All the Grzebyks except Peter, who is married, live with their widowed mother in a six-room frame house at No. 5028 Belmont St. That is about two miles from the Plymouth plant, and Big Tony Grzebyk walks it, carrying his supper of three thick sandwiches and a pail of coffee. The Grzebyks (pronounced Gzebbik) are Poles...
...Flint, Syracuse University." When the parcel gave off a muffled tick, the clerk turned white as a miller, rushed the parcel to the postmaster. The postmaster sent for the police. The police sent for a Department of Justice expert on infernal machines. The expert dunked the parcel in a pail of water, prodded it with a long pole, gingerly took it apart. Disclosed was an arrangement of cardboard tubes, cotton wadding, piano wire, an alarm clock works and some sort of granulated white powder. Pronounced the Department of Justice man: "The best bomb I have seen in many years...