Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion was the presentation by the unions which make up T. U. C. of 27 Y. M. C. A. mobile canteens. When the King, accompanied by his Queen, arrived in Buckingham Quadrangle to receive the canteens he was five minutes late for the ceremony. Barrel-chested, brindle-haired George Gibson boomed: "If you were a worker, you'd already have been fined." The King giggled...
There appeared little likelihood that Lewis would dominate Murray and run the show from backstage. Phil Murray had his chief over a barrel all week. Be fore he would agree to take the job, he demanded a resolution condemning Naziism, Fascism and Communism, one of the issues of the convention, a resolution that anti-Communist Hillman was eager for. Lewis squirmed, thundered that those who say Communists influenced C. I. 0. "lie in their beard and lie in their bowels." But finally he gave in. The resolution was passed...
This is a new sport, but still it is a sport! It is called shooting fish in a barrel...
...Barrel Body Stearns, speedy captain of the Plympton Street Penmen, engineered a smashing barrage that left the Little Green flat on its back. Butch Lyman distinguished himself at main passes...
...stubborn slab of a man named Ernest ("Give 'Itler 'Ell") Bevin. As the National Government's new Minister of Labor he has so ably unmuddled his department that his hold on the popular imagination is the greatest political phenomenon of the war. Built like a beer barrel, ungrammatically eloquent Bevin wedged himself into the revised Cabinet as the apex of pyramiding trade-union strength. No mere pub gabble was the talk of Bevin as "our next Prime Minister." However, there were no signs last week that Prime Minister Churchill was missing any political busses...