Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening was athletic rather than musical. When Rhadames (Vittorio Fullin) made his triumphal entry, who should be chained to his chariot but Jack ("Little Arthur") Johnson, Negro pugilist who once annoyed whites by being heavyweight champion of the world. Five thousand music lovers gaped and cheered while the barrel-chested black writhed in his chains and leopard skins to add artistic verisimilitude to his walk-on, nonsinging role of a captured Ethiopian general...
Last week young New Yorkers enrolled in a Landon First Voters League indicated that they had missed either the New Yorker cartoon or its point when they organized a "Victim of Future Taxes" unit, sent out a "Barrel Show" to tour the city and Eastern college campuses. Doing their bit in the current GOP campaign to persuade the nation that Franklin Roosevelt is somehow to blame for local, municipal, county and State as well as Federal taxes, a young man and three professional women models appear in garments from which parts of sleeves, skirts, crowns and toes have been scissored...
...Reims last week occurred the first important street battle between gangs of French Reds & Pinks and gangs of French Whites of the new anti-Communist Party founded by tough, barrel-chested ex-Communist Jacques Doriot, Mayor of St. Denis, a Paris suburb, and a French Deputy. In 1932 he visited Russia, conferred with Moscow leaders, returned to France vigorously critical of Stalin, and was therefore expelled from the French Communist Party. Nonetheless his St. Denis working class constituents have twice more re-elected him although he was opposed and vituperated by Communist candidates. Today this stocky, muscular anti-Communist with...
...TIME, April 22, 1935). Last week, guzzling Coca-Cola by the barrel in a quivering, dust-laden haze, they witnessed the first public demonstration of the Rust picker...
...that moment the barn began to roll over & over like a barrel. Racing and climbing, he managed to keep on top of it as it spun in the flood. It struck a house, was smashed to pieces. He leaped at the moment it struck, landed on the roof of the dwelling. Simultaneously its walls caved in. Victor clambered up the collapsing roof, was being submerged when another house boiled up in the flood and he clung to its eaves. He lost his grip and fell, but landed on a part of the roof of the barn, went spinning toward destruction...