Word: wabash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...support her family, Viola Hoffa went to work, tirelessly washing and ironing the laundry that her two boys hauled home in a wagon. When Jimmy was about ten, the family moved 20 miles northwest to Clinton, on the Wabash River. The boys chopped and sold wood, set out trotlines in the river, caught catfish, bass, suckers; some were sold, the rest were eaten at home. They scraped the bottom of the Wabash for mussels, boiled them in big oil drums, sold the shells to button makers at the rate of $6 a ton. They learned how to take care...
...beat is hard and jumping, the yodels are nasal, and the clipped British consonants that bristle occasionally among the carefully slurred ham-hock vowels are hilarious. The songs are chain-gang, camp-meeting U.S. imports: Wabash Cannonball, Frankie and Johnny, I Shall Not Be Moved. The musicians generally are amateurs, paid with coffee and Cokes, belting out their rockabilly on a couple of guitars, a banjo and a bass fiddle (sometimes store-bought, more often conjured out of an empty tea chest, a broomstick and a knotted string...
...president of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, succeeding Donald V. Fraser, 60, who will become board chairman. Deramus, in turn, will be succeeded at Chicago Great Western by Veteran Railman E. T. Reidy, 53. Member of an old railroading family, big, brawny Bill Deramus went to work for the Wabash Railroad in St. Louis after the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School, ran a railroad in Burma for the Army during World War II, became the youngest president of any class I U.S. railroad a year after joining Chicago Great Western in 1948. He rehabilitated the shaky line, enabled...
...Robert Richards was mildly apologetic for the stubble that darkened his unshaven face. "I always try to look rough on these days," he explained. But 5 o'clock shadow did not scare off his fans. The crowd on hand at Indiana's Wabash College for the National A.A.U. decathlon championship-the trials to determine U.S. Olympic contenders-dogged Bob Richards' every step...
...moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash...