Word: crackerbox
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...city, hand-printed poems of amor on sale at 25? flutter from a clothespin in a dowdy doorway next to a modern furniture store whose neon sign shouts: "Use Nuestro Layaway Plan." But San Juan also has festering El Fanguito and neighboring swampland slums of stilted crackerbox shanties, partly cleared but still the home...
...does each year) of getting up steam again. "With her new hull," he says stoutly, "we could take her anywhere." But there are some obstacles: the hull actually rests on a barge which keeps the Goldenrod from sinking; the pilothouse teeters over the deck like a tilted crackerbox ("Haven't been up there in ten years"), and the towboat Wenonah has been steam-less so long that rivermen doubt whether she has more than one good whistle left...
...Dewey did not fall very far. He took a crackerbox credo that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and made a philosophical system out of it. Nothing in science, politics or religion, he argued, must be accepted on say-so. Like the hunt-&-peck philosopher who put it on paper, Dewey's "pragmatism" was a hunt-&-peck philosophy...
...their improvised jungle near Los Angeles, Jungle Book is as absorbing as a behind-the-scenes trip to the zoo. But when they converse in Kipling's English, the result is painful. The python sounds like Lionel Barrymore; the cobra, who is very long winded, like a wheezy crackerbox philosopher; a tough monkey like a Tammany ward heeler...
...Argument. Willkie is an Indiana crackerbox debater in store clothes, and full of intellectual hops. He has an unruly mop of brown hair, a barrel chest, and he stands six feet one in spite of stooping as if he were perpetually leaning over a jury box. When he sits in a chair he sprawls like a sheepdog at rest but his blue, humor-flecked eyes look out from under knitted brows waiting for the argument to begin...