Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rabelais is famous for his "Pantagruel" (three books) and his "Gargantua" He was a humanist and called a spade a spade; his motto was: 'Fais ce que voudras' or 'Do what damn please'--a fine dope to follow if you have a barrel of money, but for a poor guy it means prison inside of a week. Rabelais was an all 'round bad guy, didn't believe in God, and led a pretty fast life. His works show it, and they'd never do for a Girls' School, but would make a big hit with some college men I know...
First brush between Captain January and the truant officer occurs when Star is haled to the village school to take an examination. Here, while Captain January and his friend Nazro (Slim Summerville) stand on a rain barrel and peer through the schoolhouse window, Star distinguishes herself. She makes the young nephew of the truant officer, being questioned simultaneously, appear doltish by comparison, gains credentials for the third grade. As lighthouse inspector, Captain Nazro has the sad duty of telling Captain January that, because his light is being mechanized, he must join the unemployed. This means that poor little Star...
About to change hands last week was the famed Barco oil concession, an inaccessible 500,000-acre tract of jungle in northeastern Colombia. Originally granted to Colombia's late General Don Virgilio Barco in 1905, it is one of the world's great concessions, though hardly a barrel of oil has yet been taken out of it. Wells have been drilled, but the necessary pipe-line to the coast is yet to be laid. For the past decade the Barco concession has been controlled by Gulf Oil Corp...
...independence necessary to any Harvard political organization has been carried off lock, stock, and barrel, by the tireless and determined radical group which first lulls the moderate members into dull complacency and sooner or later alienates them by its irresponsible activities. The letter leaves unanswered the significant question: what strength will be added to the Harvard Student Union by its half-hearted but involving connection with the national organization...
...powder of the Revenge to the last barrel was now spent, all her pikes broken, forty of her best men slain, and the most part of the rest hurt...