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...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...
Luigi Golinelli, giant white-haired basso, whose locks are snowier than the fleeces of Sharon, whose voice could shake the walls of Gaza; Spartaco Morgia, dramatic tenor, with barrel chest and amber voice - a man like a hogshead of honey; Attilio Boschi, young baritone, who, it is declared, is destined to be "the second Scandiani"; the Rev. Antonio Grimaldi, basso at the Sistine Chapel for 16 years, a famed authority on ecclesiastical music; Eugenio Andriselli, adult male soprano and assistant organist at St. Peter's. In all, there are twelve singers. Their programs will include selections from -the religious...
...like a hogshead of honey...
...with reference to the use of one of the cellars of Hollis as a mortar-trough. Wishing to ascertain for ourselves the facts of the case, we visited the cellar in question, and found it filled with sand, troughs, tools of all kinds, and, in the centre, an immense hogshead filled with foul looking water...