Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barrel Song...
...Popular among polka-dancing Bohemians and Moravians, Vejvoda's bit of tinkle-tonkle was soon recorded by an old-fashioned Czech beer-garden band, and in disc form reached the U. S. Because of the record's quaint, beery boopishness, Victor (its U. S. distributor) renamed it the Beer Barrel Polka. The Beer Barrel Polka record not only caught on, it spouted continuously and deliriously from slot machines in every skating rink, juke joint and hamburger stand in the Middle West...
...under a blazing sun, while some 250 men-public utilitarians, newsmen, drawling politicians from Tennessee-met on the sixth floor of Manhattan's First National Bank. They were there to witness an epochal surrender; the Appomattox of the six-year fight by Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s shaggy, barrel-chested President Wendell Lewis Willkie to stave off public ownership of public utilities in the Tennessee River Valley...
Next day, having failed to up the price of gasoline, Harry Sinclair turned to his May alternative: Sinclair-Prairie Oil Marketing Co., another Consolidated subsidiary, cut its posted buying price for crude oil 20? a barrel...
...Argument. Willkie is an Indiana crackerbox debater in store clothes, and full of intellectual hops. He has an unruly mop of brown hair, a barrel chest, and he stands six feet one in spite of stooping as if he were perpetually leaning over a jury box. When he sits in a chair he sprawls like a sheepdog at rest but his blue, humor-flecked eyes look out from under knitted brows waiting for the argument to begin...