Word: birler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, 40 years ago, two log cuffers named Tom Oliver and Jim Stewart birled for two days (six hours the first day, five the next) before one got a ducking. Nowadays, 15 minutes is a long time to keep dry. A cagey, cat-quick birler is called a Bangor Tiger, because of the legendary feats of Bangor-driving Maine loggers over 100 years...
...oldtimers' annoyance, girls have become expert birlers too. The girl whom the lumberjills were out to wet last week was husky Mary Jean Malott, 21, of Cornell, Wis., defending Queen of the White Water. Queen Mary Jean, a lumberjack's daughter, has been an exhibition birler since she was six, barnstorms with carnivals and sportsmen's shows during vacations from Anderson Seminary, where she is studying to be a preacher...
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