Word: barndoors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barndoor: an attachment for theatrical lights that helps concentrate the beam. Broad: a type of floodlight...
Author Bissell has a field day with the phony chatter of theater people and New York conversation generally. And coming from where the girls eat better. he cannot entirely appreciate the Manhattan dames who "have eleven-inch waists, barndoor mouths, and stand around on the sidewalks with their feet at right angles to one another." But he can also be pretty biting about life back home and "the plumbing, dry-battery, wallboard. disk-harrow and axle-grease aristocracy." There speaks a man-Dick Bissell as much as Jack Jordan-caught in the middle between houseboats and station wagons, between...
...playing with the fantastic conviction that it could actually beat Army. But the crowd began to get Navy's idea early in the second quarter. After recovering an Army fumble, the Middies ground out 33 yards in four plays, with Zastrow barging the last seven through a barndoor hole in the Army line for a touchdown...