Word: pails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building of skyscrapers there are a few details in which science has not supplanted skill. Workmen still play catch with incandescent rivets, which, when heated, are tossed through the air 30, 40, 50 feet to where a nonchalant figure, swaying on a matchstick girder, swings a pail to catch them. Loiterers many floors below stand enchanted, watching the bits of glowing metal leap obligingly like miraculously agile trout into a waiting pan. Loiterers reflect that while science sometimes fails when heavy steel bars drop down, skill is infallible, for no rivet ever falls...
...lank, sunburned individual walked down the street. He stooped and had a two-days' growth of beard. He was encased in blue overalls, stitched with white. In one hand he carried a pail half filled with a dark brown paint; in the other a heavy brush. It was Bill Jones going to paint his barn...
...They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail of the water of self-respect. ... Author Delafield writes well up to her pretensions, which are neither large nor small...
...afternoon after he had arrived in this country from Ireland. John, who at that time was earning his livelihood as an odd job man, was watching some of the students playing baseball on the Common. One of them asked him to bring them some water, and John fetched a pail of refreshment so pleasantly cooled with ice flavored with ginger ale and molasses, that the students took up a collection for him told him that if he were to buy fruit and bring it to their rooms, they would all buy from...
Other N. Y. Newspapers. The "regular" newspapers were like urchins sliding down an icy sidewalk who suddenly behold a garbage pail at the bottom of the hill. Having filled their columns with the same sort of thing before, they now found it too late to stop. The tabloids, moreover, had made of the Brownings "news" which newspapers could not, they felt, afford to omit. The Hearst Journal was willing enough, nay, eager, to rush its leading staff members to the trial, including saccharine Nell Brinkley who discovered a "lesson to mothers" for the front page. But the editor...