Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved lock, stock and barrel, not to mention old-fashioned banjo clocks and row on row of used suits, to 1109 Mass, Ave. Above his now store hangs a neon sign bearing the legend "Max Keezer--College Clothes...
...Flynn of The Bronx, was James Herbert Fay. Purgee O'Connor and Candidate Fay are to the naked eye as much alike as two Irish politicians, but Mr. Fay, unlike Mr. O'Connor, was born in the Gashouse, has lived there all his 39 years. Short, barrel-chested, he lost his left leg in the Argonne at 19, now gets about nimbly on an artificial one. President of Tammany's Anawanda Club, Jim Fay ran against John O'Connor for Congress in 1934, lost by 101 votes. Since 1935 he has held...
...Spanish gold for outdated equipment, the show also included a 3-ton, 6-in. cannon, mounted on a high-wheeled carriage and an old Winchester rifle. The cannon, worthy of a museum, was manufactured at Obujov. Russia in 1864. The Winchester, with the date 1860 still visible on its barrel, was the type used by U. S. frontiersmen in the Indian fighting...
...have a crew of about 40 and sped past in five sections, each rolling on rubber tires and pulled by a heavy tractor. First section, the gun carriage; second, the gun cradle; third, the immense recoil and recuperator gear; fourth, incidental equipment of the gun; and fifth, the gun barrel which appeared to be some 45 feet long with a calibre of ten inches. A retired naval officer of a Great Power exclaimed: "I have seen plenty of guns like that on shipboard, but I have never before seen one dragged through the streets...
Investigators who drew a final glass of beer from the mess barrel pronounced it "very weak and watery...