Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a political misstep. The President was put in an uncomfortable position when Colonel Lindbergh wired him a protest that commanded the attention of the country. This criticism touched a tender White House spot. Stephen T. Early, the President's second assistant secretary, met it with a double-barreled reply. One barrel went off with a smart bang: Colonel Lindbergh, famed for his Press-shyness, had deliberately sought "publicity" by releasing his telegram to the newspapers before giving the President the courtesy of receiving it. The second barrel emitted a weak weasel: the Colonel's telegram...
...debt (some $3,000,000) on a 20-year note, the interest at 5% payable at the end of the period. This means a yearly income somewhat over $130,000 (figuring the ranch's drilling acres at 1,000,000) in addition to the usual royalty of one barrel of oil in every eight taken out of the ground. By the time the King estate is finally settled, the ranch's acre age may be a minor item compared to its oil reserves...
...wallboard 100 feet high representing the arch. Over the opening was a painted rainbow which will be of colored mosaic in the finished work. Bracing either pier was an intricate iceberg of plaster. Together they contained 53 nine-foot figures-rows of muscular nude young men rising to a barrel-chested Superman with arms outstretched; nursing mothers, old men, children and refugees. Many were individual figures of great effectiveness. Two months ago Sculptor Barnard, with plaster in his hair, tried to explain all this to a puzzled interviewer...
Said Warden Alson: "A barrel of corn mash, charged with alcohol, is left overnight near a sand bar or a sluice where wild ducks are known to feed. Early the next morning the hunters return. There are the ducks, either sleeping off a hangover or staggering around making silly quacking sounds. The alcohol leaves the ducks incapable of flying or swimming, and they are caught easily by hand. Some die of acute alcoholism...
...days," one officer remarked, "when we had a frisky mule and a good cold day, she'd throw the riders in no time, and go out and give us a show, but now the best we can get have to be hit with a barrel stave before they show any action...