Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then why proclaim her Presbyterianism? Why not go over lock, stock and barrel to our Romanish friends...
...been for years. Crops for this and the two previous years have averaged nearly 100,000,000 bu. below domestic consumption of about 650,000,000 bu. annually. This year, moreover, the 595.000,000 bu. harvested is light in weight, requiring the use of more bushels per barrel of flour. The surpluses piled up prior to 1933 are nearly exhausted, and before the next harvest U. S. millers must import perhaps 50,000,000 bu. of high-grade Canadian grain over a 42¢-per-bu. tariff...
...first pictures on the production schedules announced each June, the first half of August is generally regarded as the start of a new year in the cinema business. Last week half a dozen major pictures, in sharp distinction to the products from the bottom of last year's barrel which have been unloaded on exhibitors for the past two months, were ready for the screen...
...names from the city directory): "I was pretty well acquainted and knew pretty much who was for and who was against the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill." Senator Schwellenbach: "How did it happen your acquaintances were limited to the first letters of the alphabet?" Herron (admitting he had mentioned using a "barrel of kerosene"): "I was just joking, of course. Just like you might say you were going to burn your house to keep from paying taxes." O'Brien (asked whether he had destroyed all his papers on the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill) : "Yes, I set them aside." "Where?" "In the waste...
...Simp" Dixon, killed two more, which made him a popular Texan in the eyes of ex-Confederates. At 16 Hardin, mocked by a desperado who stole his gun and boots, salved his pride by plugging his tormentor between the eyes. For years he seemed to look into a gun barrel whenever he embarked on any peaceful venture. Once at a circus he accidentally bumped a roustabout who drew a pistol. Hardin, of course, killed him on the spot. When he fell in love a rival tried to take advantage of his sentimental state by robbing him. Hardin merely dropped...