Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quarters and found them still asleep. . . .An officer shouted to the children to hurry on deck, and we started, with the children behaving magnificently. . . .We clambered into a lifeboat but it had shipped much water and its rudder was gone. . . .The children were singing Roll Out the Barrel. As they came to the part that goes 'We'll have a barrel of fun,' the ship sank. . . .The darkness was terrifying. There was no disorder- only the moaning and crying of the wounded. We were in water up to our hips. It was terribly cold. . . .When dawn came...
Brill, known in his Freshman year as "Brill the Barrel" and last year as "Liquid Lew," explained that he "took the vow" one Sunday morning early this summer. Advising the pledge for all his fellow students as a cure-all that really works, he pointed to himself as a staggering example: "Before I decided to follow Babson, what was I?" he asked. "A nobody. And now look at me: I'm chairman of the Brill-for-Babson club of Harvard University...
...illusion). Pacing his illusions to the brassy blare of carnival music, Mystifier Dante whirled through an inferno of prestidigitatorial feats, transformed a tailor's dummy into a lady, made stooges vanish right & left. Loudly acclaimed was his trick of covering the open ends of a small beer barrel with paper, then distributing a few noggins from the keg among the audience. With dancing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious cabinets and livestock summoned out of nowhere, Sim Sala Bim provided plenty of pleasantly stupefying hokum...
Prices were $7~$8 a barrel ($1 a bbl. above 1939), might hit $9. From 1935 to 1938 they had sagged as low as $5.50. Before that (1931-35) they had been unspeakable. Time was (before 1924) when oysters were the No. 1 U. S. cash seafood product. Now topped by salmon and tuna, the industry, which employs some 66,000 workers, harvests an average 16,300,000 bushels of oysters annually...
...drunken father, a hysterical mother. At 17, gay, giddy Gertrude eloped with one of her divorced mother's suitors, sulky, jealous, half-Spanish George Atherton, who had Spanish ideas on the subjugation of women. When he died in 1887 and was shipped home from Chile in a barrel of rum, his young widow had learned little respect for men or for marriage...