Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paroled in 1925, bald, barrel-chested Charlie Ward started at B. & B. as a $25-a-week laborer. In six years he was general manager. When Bigelow died in 1933, he left Ward a third of his $3,000,000 estate and a chance at the presidency of B. & B. Far from satisfied that he had proved himself, Ward worked harder than ever to weather the depression, stepped up the pace still more to convert to war production (proximity fuses). Last week the New York Stock Exchange gave him proof that he had made the grade. It listed...
Blarney Justice. He was a one-man chamber of commerce and court of domestic relations. He administered blarney, justice or the back of his hand as the case demanded; he fished in Tammany's pork barrel for 28 years to bring improvements to "me people." He was rigidly honest. "If I wasn't," he explained, "I might get caught and have to go before a judge I mightn't even know...
From contemporary portraits and medallions, Wind has identified Mercury as Alfonso's brother Ippolito, Silenus as Pietro Bembo (who later became a cardinal), Silvanus as Painter Bellini himself. Since the Feast was finished several years after the wedding, Alfonso's son Ercole might have played the barrel-tapping little Bacchus...
With his country eyeing the bare bottom of its dollar barrel, Sosa Molina was in no position to order U.S.-made arms. But he would not go home emptyhanded. With the Army Department's O.K., he would probably get permission to manufacture U.S.-model weapons in Argentina...
...where he packs them to the rafters, Wild Bill Longson demonstrates an experienced actor's adroit timing. Wild Bill knows exactly when a kick aimed at his opponent's groin will bring down an avalanche of hearty boos. His histrionic skill earns him $1,500 an appearance. Barrel-chested Yvon Robert (rhymes with snow bear) has done so well at playing hero in his home town that he is now co-owner in a profitable sideline: a fancy Montreal nightclub called El Morocco. Gargantuan Primo Camera has no particular gimmick, but he is netting more from wrestling...