Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moreover, the bank was his, lock, stock & barrel, for he had long ago bought out his partner. On his deathbed he looked up to ask: "Is everything all right?" Advised that it was, he instructed: "Keep it so." His only son, Asahel II, kept it so until last week. For years he personally took over delinquent loans rather than let them spot the bank's records. A stickler for liquid assets, he astounded U. S. Treasury officials by turning in $350,000 in gold when the New Deal forsook the gold standard. Like the elder J. P. Morgan...
...even under existing conditions, Messrs. Roosevelt and Hull should have been able to draw from the pork-barrel a better appointment than that of the present tobacco-minister to Canada. Doubtless they now regret their choice. For by his outspoken attack upon Germany Mr. Cromwell has placed the State Department in a most embarrassing position; many hearers will take Cromwell's outburst as reflecting official American views. But the ambassador's pipe contains only ashes. "How easy," he cries, "it is for unthinking people to proclaim that what happens in Europe is no concern of theirs. . . . How easy to shut...
Having met Mr. Paul many times at the offices of Random House, our mutual publishers, I can also state that he is not as barrel-shaped as his pictures show. He is really a small man-who, if you must coin an image around, would be keg-shaped...
...scalawaggery of shimmying, shagging, rowdy flashing of black eyes and brown legs, a lively wigwagging of rumps. A comely Negro girl led the terpsichorean rout, rumbaing, impersonating Inca and Martinique maids, flaunting a big cigar in her mouth as a West Indian on an excursion, shimmying in a Florida barrel house, cakewalking as "de Tah Baby" in a ballet on Bre'r Rabbit. This live-wire dancer was Katherine Dunham, young Chicagoan, starting a series of Manhattan recitals with the best Negro dance group yet assembled...
...swim the 220. 100. and relay; Lennie Stowell the 100 and relay; Frannie Powers the 440, 100, or relay; Art Bosworth the 100 and relay, and George Dana the high and low-board dives. In addition to the H.A.A. authorized squad of six men, Tom Godfrey and Dave "Barrel-body" Stearns will travel to the Penn pool on their own; they will enter the 220 and 50 respectively...