Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Adolphus Busch III, 55, fourth in line of the great beer-barrel dynasty, president of Anheuser-Busch, multi-million-dollar brewers of Budweiser; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Louis...
...Parks became a Catholic, has energetically performed good works for the St. Louis archdiocese ever since. Though no graduate, Parks raised $2,000,000 for St. Louis (Catholic) University. Last week Parks, 47, now Midwest distributor for Ercoupe planes, presented his $3,000,000 Parks Air College lock, stock & barrel to St. Louis University. Then he traded in his president's title for a $1-a-year job as dean of the university's new college of aviation...
...Steamroller. Young Daniel Fignolé, a 28-year-old Socialist ex-mathematics teacher with a magnetic voice and brooding eyes, sparked the barrel of hatred. He picked a humdrum black soldier as the poor man's presidential candidate, promised the blacks the houses, cars and mistresses of the elite. When he visited poor black quarters, hordes of men, women & children in various states of undress pressed about his car, climbed on to it, beat voodoo rhythms on the fenders, danced and tumbled in ecstasy, roared: "Vive Fignol...
Groucho is first-rate. From his opening lines as a stowaway in a barrel in the hold of the ship, to his concluding monologue announcing a fight from the ceiling of a barn, he works furiously every minute. Most of his action is ad-lib, and his Perelmanesque lines are sharp. Commenting on a remark by someone, he says: "Gee, I wish I'd said that. Everyone's repeating it around the club these days...
...Fuel & Power Minister Shinwell has served notice on the industry that it can expect to be nationalized "lock, stock & barrel...