Word: bargeman
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...born to be a bargeman. Before the summer is over, he and Molly have parted. Then, as the canal is about to close for the winter, and while an employment agent in Hennessy's Hotel is significantly hiring "canawlers" to work on the Utica & Black River Railway, the young folk meet again. Dan has to toss Jotham Klore into the water before he can persuade Molly to come and live with him on his new farm. Excellent as are the sharp, penny-plain performances by Miss Walker and Mr. Fonda, they do not dim the legitimate debut of droll Herb...
Offended by the bargeman and butcher-boy atmosphere of the hearings, one by one Plaintiff Broussard, his counsel and the Honest Election League had by last week withdrawn from the investigation, declaring that it "had degenerated into an effort to purify Huey Long...