Word: bailer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comedian, "head man" of the Moran & Mack team; when he was pinned under the overturned automobile in which he was riding with his wife, daughter, Partner Moran, and Mack Sennett, all of whom were slightly hurt; near Mesa, Ariz. Born in Kansas, he rose from newsboy to professional base-bailer, streetcar conductor, stage electrician. When comedians remembered and used his quips, he decided to use them himself, toured in vaudeville with a partner named Moran who died of pneumonia. He ran a trunk factory in Cleveland, returned to the stage with Comedian George Searcy who called himself Moran...
Honeydew melons get all balled up and think they're marbles after coming in contact with our fruit and potato bailer. Butter likewise...
...become conditions in Mississippi last week that the four leaders of the Legislature-House Speaker Tom Bailer, Ways & Means Chairman Joe George, Appropriations Chairman Lawrence Kennedy, Judiciary Chairman Walter Sillers-issued an extra-legal call for an unofficial session at Jackson on April 27. The "Big Four" thought that if they could get the Legislature into the Capitol, Governor Bilbo would be forced to legalize its sitting by issuing a predated call. The wily Governor, however, countered by pointing out that April 27 was Confederate Memorial Day and that the Capitol would be closed for a holiday. The "Big Four...
...wiped the dust from the platform of the New Lecture Hall and from the window recesses of Harvard 6 with their head gear. The venerable Stetson has sheltered many a worried head from the wintry blast along the Charles and has served in summer time as the proverbial boat-bailer. Stretched to twice its circumference or crunched into a pocket, it has come out smiling--resuming its shapeless shape with a tacit invitation for more mistreatment. In short, the "Harvard hat" has become renowned almost as much for its versatility as for its nonchalant appearance...