Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, July 9), they were greeted with skeptical snorts. Last week they offered as corroborative evidence a picture of one of the most fantastic: a gun that shoots around corners (see cut). Designed so that a soldier can keep out of sight while firing, the gun has a curved barrel and a special sight for aiming from around a corner. After emerging, the bullet flies fairly straight, Allied experts said, but not very accurately...
...barrel-chested populator of Frogner Park was a mystic, a recluse, and a scoffer at all art-except his own. Largely self-taught. Sculptor Vigeland emerged, in 1905, from a cocoon of starvation and obscurity, to receive a prize beyond the wildest dreams of patron-seekers. The Norwegian Government had agreed to commission him with a carte blanche...
...coke, if you prefer) will flow freely next week when the SERVICE NEWS opens the doors of candidacy for all comers. Competitions for all three boards will open Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Crimson building; all are welcome, and they may be an extra barrel of beer for the particularly welcome now Freshmen...
Snigeroff's Nose. Drunkenness was regarded as an affliction rather than a misdemeanor. Nobody except Helen minded the endless consumption of a beverage brewed by "tossing sugar, flour and yeast-and sometimes a handful of rice or half-rotten fruit-into a dirty butter barrel" filled with water and allowing the mess to "make" for four days. "Don't be silly," said Thornie, dismissing Helen's alarm at the battle royal which invariably accompanied this wassail. "The boys are just having a good time. Just like kids. . .They really enjoy...
...Anchor's proprietors] operated such an establishment in America," Dobie speculates, "they'd take in a barrel of money. They'd enlarge it to take care of more & more customers and keep on enlarging it until it grew as big as Madison Square Garden. . . ." That the English proprietors are content to make only a simple living from the Anchor is, he thinks, the secret of England's proud contentment...