Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Success. The torch which had set the fire was Harold Stassen's own relentless campaigning. In the last month before the election, while Dewey and MacArthur remained aloof in their own headquarters, Stassen had raced back & forth across Wisconsin, making at least 35 major speeches, holding countless cracker-barrel discussions at every Wisconsin crossroads...
...with the leader of the oompah German band, no one missed his jab at MacArthur: "This is not a war crisis-it is a peace crisis. Military genius, no matter how excellent, is not the answer." At Eau Claire, he leaned back against a table and talked with cracker-barrel familiarity to local farmers about mastitis, Bang's disease and silage. He confided: "My prime interest outside of my family and job is my farm...
...Billie was three. She began to work at six, scrubbing steps before school and minding babies after, was only 14 ("big for my age, had big breasts, big bones") when she got her first singing job in a Harlem joint at $2 a night. Her first record (Tapping the Barrel) was made with a green young band leader named Benny Goodman, and she was soon getting feature billing...
SKIING (minor H)--Gordon Abbott, Jr. '50; Edmund A. Begert, Jr. '49; Gerald Y. Genn '48; Lawrence L. Griffin '48; Rodger P. Nordblom '50; Graham R. Taylor, Jr. '50 (captain); William S. Wasserman, Jr. '48; Robert L. Barrel '46 ocC (manager...
...took a job in the barrel room at a 5-shilling cut in wages, but he was far from happy. "Redmund smokes a pipe," he grumbled. "I don't like it, but I ain't saying anything." A reporter from the Daily Herald printed the remark and Alf got the sack...