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Word: barrelers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lahr's sometime but overloving wife, Eileon Heckart handles a large and difficult part well. Singing, dancing and generally playing small-time vaudevillian, she does an intelligent and very able portrayal. Robert Weil, a barrel-bodied dwarf who did his all to hold up Ann Corio through three acts of "Sailor Beware," this season, turns up here as a two-bit Burlesque gagster, and is an extremely funny little man. William Mendrek and Ruth Homond, whose names appear on these pages from time to time, do their usually adequate job. And for purely local interest-besides some trim chorines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 7/19/1946 | See Source »

...popular success. Said Fair Secretary Lloyd Cunningham: "The whole Fair Board was tired of being kidded about that picture. It was an insult to our pioneer Iowa farmers. It made them look coconut-headed, barrel-necked and low-browed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shelved | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Thoughtful scientists are thoroughly alarmed. Is the military about to take over U.S. science, lock, stock & barrel, calling the tune for U.S. universities and signing up the best scientists for work fundamentally aimed at military results? Many a scientist believes that is exactly what is happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Military Moves In | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...Approved by standing vote a $900-million flood control project, despite opposition shouts of "pork barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...good-neighborly schemes are not tainted with boondoggling. One such scheme clicked smartly last week: the Peruvian Government was so pleased with the Inter-American Development Commission's job in creating a local crafts industry that it took over the project, lock, stock & barrel. What's more, it would undertake to repay development costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Old Crafts in New Hands | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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