Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporters got up, filed through the swaying train to the President's car in the rear. In a sitting room just inside the observation platform he awaited them, barrel-chested, massive, smiling over his secret. His big head, white at the temples, cocked back & forth as he greeted correspondents, directed them to their places in the little room. It comfortably accommodates seven, but 20-odd jammed in, jostling each other as the train rolled along...
Last week Republican leaders frantically telephoned Rushville begging their candidate to crack down, make a loud noise, blast the destroyer deal lock, stock & barrel. Once before Wendell Willkie had refused to champion what he believed to be bad policy in order to make a campaign issue-on that occasion he endorsed conscription. This time he was in a hotter spot. Some Republican leaders, isolationists by tradition and anxious to swat Roosevelt, saw in the destroyer deal an opportunity for him to seize a red hot emotional issue...
...didn't work. Before the Civil War, the four big Shaker colonies had 6,000 members. Today there are about 75. Part of the colony at New Lebanon, N. Y., whose meeting house is supposed to be the only early building in the U. S. with a barrel roof, has been sold. The rest is for sale. But its dozen or so oldsters stay on. The sisters wear the bonnets, severe dresses and cloaks of their predecessors. Buxom Sister Lillian makes fine chairs. Frail, nearly toothless Elderess Sarah Collins, 85, putters among her souvenirs, cackles affably, with many...
...Irish whiskey distiller who moved to the U. S. before the war, Brian Donlevy was bred to arms at St. John's Military Academy in Delafield, Wis. He carried on as a bugler with General Pershing's 1916 expedition to Mexico (where he says he developed his barrel chest), flew with the Lafayette Escadrille in France. After that he modeled for Arrow Collars, worked on Broadway. Donlevy likes fishing, prospecting for gold, has a family fondness for whiskey. To liven his cinema slugfests, he sometimes tries to anger his opponents, then let them have it. Otherwise...
...example, the body types 514 and 541 both have the same amount of endomorphic roundness, but the other two components, the strong and the frail, are reversed. So the 514 is a "long-legged, round-shouldered, completely soft and effeminate boy," whereas the 541 is a "ruddy, powerful, active, barrel-bodied boy who is usually full of bounding energy and is likely to become president of something...