Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Friends. In Denver, the embarrassed Post announced that Michael Hawkins and Barrel J. Suer had not been married after all, as the Post had "previously reported, but had merely joined the police force together...
Johnny Weissmuller, 41, barrel-chesty onetime swimming champ, longtime movie Tarzan, onetime husband of Dancer Bobbe Arnst and of Actress Lupe Velez, was sued for divorce for the third time. Wife III charged extreme cruelty, asked $1,800-a-month support for herself and three children...
Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee all but completed his Government. But he had had to scrape the Labor Party barrel for experienced talent...
...Hulking, disheveled Roger "Brick" Fleagle-an ace arranger for such name bands as Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford-lumbered into the studio, stared at his unshaven assemblage and lazily "sparked" (alerted) them with his pinkie finger. They played a few tired bars to warm up. Then Brick, his barrel-stomach protruding under a striped sweat shirt, gave his final orders: "We'll take SOS [Same Old Sheaves]. On the last two bars, Charlie, make it bumpa, bumpa, some Charleston, then a brrrrooom. O.K., we're rolling...
...most distinctive thing about the carrier Ticonderoga was her skipper. Captain Dixie Kiefer* is a short, barrel-chested seaman and airman who ran his ship by procedures few men could or would use, and made them work...