Word: pails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eighth of an inch thick, then a coat of heavy grease. Gertrude Ederle, standing bare in the Hotel Sirene, Cape Gris Nez, France, shivered slightly and pressed her legs together. "Gee whiz, let's get started." Her sister, Margaret, dipped her hands once more in the grease pail. "Put your bathing suit on," she directed over her shoulder. More grease was applied to the strong stumpy body, clad now in a thin racing suit, cut away deeply under the arms. Gertrude Ederle (pronounced "Ed-er-ly") ran across the beach into the surf, briefly acknowledging the cheers...
...litter of four squirming puppies whimpered at the bottom of a pail which Mr. Mazarak tilted carelessly, spilling them into the hole. Whistling, he scraped and shoveled loose earth upon them, tamped it well...
...fireworks over, a vote was taken. As the Baldwin steam roller crunched, Sir Austen was sustained 325 to 136. None the less, his prestige has undoubtedly suffered. Quoth a wag: "Sir Austen may yet drown in his own pail of white-wash...
Last December the Cercle produced Le monde on for sense by Pail leron and in the spring with the cercle de Mademciselle de Boston members of the Harvard organization took part in the "LAbbe Constantin," also under the direction of M. Ferrin...
...with a ladle in an egg cup big as a pail...