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...brag and strut; he polished the wit and dug out the humor in this cleverest of swaggerers. Best of all, he suggested that self-dramatizing streak in Cyrano that gives a wry pleasure to his frustrations - and that gives the play its gill of psychology as well as its hogshead of sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Oct. 21, 1946 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Enclosed are photographs showing a prefabricated sentry house which we are manufacturing, which allows a 360° visibility by the use of a Lumarith dome, and the base of it is a tobacco hogshead. The total cost of this unit is less than $25 and shelters the sentries from rain, snow and wind, and yet does not detract from their efficiency. It is made so that it can be shipped in sections and assembled in approximately 20 minutes and if the need calls for moving, can be quickly unhooked, taken down and moved to another location...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 1, 1943 | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/27/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 28, 1932 | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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