Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Downtown in the convivial warmth of Canon City's Elks Club, barrel-shaped Warden Roy Best bull-roared with the boys and waited for his dinner. It was a nasty night outside. Snow swirled heavily about the high, menacing walls of Roy's place of business, the Colorado State Penitentiary, on the edge of town. On the grey stone towers, guards paced uneasily and strained to see through the swirling blizzard...
...doing what to whom, he printed the letter rather than behave like an editor of Pravda, who certainly wouldn't. Thus the London Times had published two such letters (signed "S. Marshak, Ulitsa Chkalova 14/16, Apt. 113, Moscow") without comment or caveat. The editors were over a barrel: they could neither prove nor brand the letters an outright forgery...
...world torn, between accumulation of money and development of personality. But what did Wolfe mean by his affirmation that "we shall be found?" Wolfe was himself lost; he had only the foggiest notions about modern science and modern thought and throughout his life he indulged in cracker-barrel sneering at intellectuals. He was a confused boy with a great gift for language, whose significance as a writer was, as critic Alfred Kazin put it, "that he expanded his boyhood into a lifetime...
...first Christie, an elegant man-about-town in wig and ruff, auctioned anything that came his way: coffins, barrel organs, pigs. He scoffed at paintings, which he called "stained rags...
...Peking University had survived the long war only by moving, lock, stock & barrel, 800 miles to Changsha, then trekking another 1,000 miles over mountains to Kunming. Back home again, Peking is still on the razor's edge. Inflation has reduced professors' salaries to $30 (U.S.) a month. The typical student diet: wo ton (millet, cornmeal and water). Laboratories and libraries have never recovered from Japanese ravages; for one history class, Peking has only three textbooks. For the next ten years, Chancellor Hu says, China ought to concentrate all her scholars, dollars and energies on five...