Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lock, Stock & Barrel. In Waterville, Me., Farmer Ray Gilbert & wife loaded a satchel, a hatbox, a few other small pieces, an iron bed, an automobile, a dog, nine head of cattle and themselves into a boxcar, and headed for California...
...keeper of Bug Light, finally retired to salt-bleached solitude on an outer harbor island. By waterfront legend, he was one of the pirates who had ravaged the West Indies early in the 19th Century, had come to the U.S. from Canada after murdering a man with a barrel stave. The King died in 1882 without discussing the matter...
...islands, in front of the long, white Colonial clubhouse, the picnicking and politicking began at once. On the greensward facing a shallow bay was a long tent-at one end a beer and bourbon bar, at the other end a food bar (crabmeat, ham, potato salad and a barrel of oysters). Harry Truman, glass in hand, sat under a flagpole and chatted, called out many a first name...
...Vincent Aster's palatial Nourmahal. Then he acquired the Sequoia, switched to the Potomac in 1936 after the Navy condemned the Sequoia as a firetrap. The topheavy Potomac made many a weekend trip on which FDR regaled his guests with drink and stories. But she rolled like a barrel-which never bothered FDR but sent many a guest to the rail...
Everybody was sure that the Andrews Sisters had done it to death-but military bands took it up again. During the war, it brought in money by the barrel; big U.S. and British royalties now await...