Word: hogsheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheeks of the decayed beauty. The skies are leaden, every rainy gust sweeps the skeleton branches cleaner, spreading on valley path and craggy niche a Turkey carpet. The airs, acrid with frost and aromatic from the sting of wood-smoke, freeze the new-pressed cider in the half-buried hogshead...
...flashing fire box to cowcatcher, and finally roars metallically into the wings. Past master of absurdity and surprise, Joe Cook regularly employs three property men of his own to supplement his production's stage staff. He needs all of them in Hold Your Horses. He juggles a whopping hogshead which he catches on the soles of his feet from a steep runway. He directs Dave Chasen to drop down to the corner for some cigars, at the precise moment that Chasen disappears through a trap door. In his mayoral office is a statue which, when dusted, sneezes. He calls...
...Cleveland, police arrested for violation of the liquor law Negro Barner Barry, 37, 493 lb., waistline, 66 in. shaped like a hogshead because "I drink good beer." They found him too fat to wedge into the police car. They called a patrol-wagon, budged him in with difficulty, shoehorned him through the central police station doorway, shouldered him quarterway through a cell door, pried him out, let him sit on a bench. In the morning they opened both the courtroom's double doors to arraign him before Judge Westropp where he pleaded not guilty. They sent him away. Fingernail...
...Carroll left grammar school and was paid 6? an hour for "picking codfish sounds." The sound is the fish's air bladder which, ripped from the backbone, dried and cured, makes isinglass. Later he went to work for Slade Gorton, a pop-eyed man as round as a hogshead who had been one of the founders of Slade Gorton & Co. in 1849. When he was 16 Tom Carroll was considered experienced enough to split fish. Then he became a skinner, ripping the parchment-like skin from dried fish. The skin is used largely for glue (in Gloucester...
Fordyce Drop Forge & Tool Factory. His first appearaace is as a common workman-though later he becomes general manager-going to his job with his dinner pail. The dinner pail is the size of an automobile crate and it contains a hogshead of coffee. From this point on the audience is relieved of all sense of proportion and reason...