Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear God Bless America on a juke box, let's just remember the British merchantman that was torpedoed in the North Atlantic last summer. She went down pretty fast, but the crew kept their spirits up by singing--not Rule Brittania or Pomp and Circumstance, but just plain Beer Barrel Polka. Pardon me while I run down to Scollay Square and yell "I Am an American," just as loud...
...were married in Manhattan's Municipal Building and rode home on the subway. "Some day," promised Joe, "we'll have a real wedding, in a church, with organ music and flowers and all the rest." Last week Joe and wife observed their silver anniversary and acquired a barrel of publicity by getting remarried in Hollywood's St. Thomas Church, with their four children as attendants. Afterwards they took a commemorative ride...
Your article under "Unity," TIME, Nov. 18, was right over the middle of the plate. - The pistol's frame behind and beneath the barrel...
...orchids and diamonds, born temptress in 22 years: slim, dark Risë (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 27, of The Bronx. Contralto Stevens proved a notable addition to the Met's strippers (who had heretofore included Sopranos Helen Jepson and Lily Pons) and in the seduction scene gave Samson (barrel-shaped Tenor René Maison) quite a going-over. But critics doubted that the Stevens pleasing midriff and voice were enough to make Saint-Saë'ns' shopworn opera an event...
...Sculptor Beniamino Bufano. famed for his barrel-shaped steel statue of St. Francis (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937), was picked to do the bas-relief. Able, but alternately dreamy, impulsive and opinionated. Sculptor Bufano turned in an acceptable drawing of the frieze, began work on a 30-ft. clay model of one section, niggled, quibbled, haggled, ordered materials only to change his mind after the requisitions had become entangled in WPA red tape. At one time he planned to cut the frieze in stone, get it financed by private sponsors. Last March, because of the delay, the local art project felt...