Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madeira & Marriage. At Bowdoin College Hawthorne solemnly bet his friend Jonathan Cilley a barrel of Madeira wine that he, Hawthorne, would be unmarried twelve years later. He won the bet. For a modern biographer it is almost superfluous to note the sexual distrust, as well as the calculation, in this resolve. What is more important is the lucid analysis, through fiction, that Hawthorne gave to such matters (and indeed to his whole Puritan background) in the years that followed...
...jailed moneymen. After graduating from the Moscow Military Academy in 1930, he went to the Soviet Trans-Caucasus for practical engineering work. Speaking of this period he once said: "I had numberless hard days. I did the lowest sort of work. I have spent a night in a rubbish barrel ... I survived, thanks to father's teaching: 'Man's spirit is omnipotent-not money...
...oranje zonnetje komt altijd door" (The little orange sun always comes through). As the city's population swelled from a normal 800,000 to twice that number, hotelkeepers flung mattresses in bathtubs and police considered putting deck chairs on hundreds of boats. By day and by night, barrel organs and miniature calliopes, from one end of the city to another, squeaked and whistled gay airs...
...never been so insulted in my life," steamed Glenn Cunningham, 39, barrel-chested mile king of the '305. The outrage: while he was giving his oratorical all to the "Temperance Tornado" drive across Kansas, on a Great Bend lecture platform, someone offered him a foaming glass of beer...
Sportwriters knocked themselves out thinking up new names and superlatives for him: The Sultan of Swat, the Bambino, The Colossus of Clout. He didn't need all that; he was color itself-a fellow built on heroic, swaggering lines, an enormous head on a barrel of a body...