Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stocky, barrel-chested. mop-haired Sculptor Barnard worked for 15 years on a project that has caused many of his esthetic friends to wince: a full-scale plaster model of an enormous War memorial arch which is yet to be translated into blue labradorite, embellished with a colored mosaic rainbow, rows of grave crosses in artificial perspective and an elaborate icing of gigantic white marble figures (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930; Nov. 27, 1933). Working like a beaver (his son estimates that he handles nearly 500 pounds of wet clay a day), he has been a recluse since the Armistice. Careful...
...reached the wings just in time to hear a hiss from the audience. He was dropping with alarms at this when the hard-boiled manager came up and said, "Psha, Doctor! don't be afraid of a squib, when we have been sitting these two hours on a barrel of gunpowder...
More responsible, however, for the Baruch triumph was his double-barreled opening before the Senate Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry. The first barrel he aimed at Senator Long, Father Coughlin and others who have cast aspersions on him as a double-dyed Wall Streeter...
...second barrel, with a far heavier charge, drove home the shot of the first...
Only one German close to the Realmleader has a really loose tongue. Last week it was wagging wildly in Nurnberg where bald, barrel-chested Julius Streicher styles himself "Leader of the Franks" and pays scant respect to Prussia or Berlin. On his soth birthday lately he received the accolade of a personal visit from Adolf Hitler who declared: "There is one man on whose wholehearted support I can depend in every situation and who has never wavered one second, Julius Streicher...