Word: pails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ashes pail, a threshing flail, an iron wedge and beetle...
...bursting with pride over what his big team was doing, and only getting mixed up with the marking lines occasionally. What gloriously funny things he executed out in front of the Harvard cheering section, culminating in a shower of good-feeling when the referee removed him from the water-pail! Even Old Mother West Wind herself was chuckling good-humoredly...
...Spring day in 1889, her magnificently equipped carriage rolled up to the dignified Church of St. John the Evangelist. She alighted, dressed in the modern equivalent of sackcloth and ashes, carrying a pail and scrubbing-brush, 'dropped to her knees, scrubbed the tiling, "did penance for her sins...
...Lullaby and collected 28? by begging on the streets outside the Knickerbocker Theatre, Manhattan. As a result of the publicicity which attended this stunt, I received a letter from the West Side Gospel Mission stating that 28? was sufficeint to buy a loaf of bread and a pail of coal. My press agent was quick to announce that I sent the 28? to the mission, plus a check for $25, 'to show she was as well off as most beggars...
...would be tempted to prophesy a drawn battle except for one thing, which we whisper to those readers who will incline their ears, to wit; we have it on very high authority that at least one of the publications is "slipping; slipping; slipping, right into the garbage pail." Who knows but both may slip in? In which case, perhaps some one will clamp...