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...finally short-circuits and decides to challenge God to prove his existence by descending into a cave and waiting for a sign, Allison nurses him back to health. "Lately I tend to fall down," he says. "That's all right I tend to pick things up. I'm a hoister," she responds...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...finally short-circuits and decides to challenge God to prove his existence by descending into a cave and waiting for a sign, Allison nurses him back to health. "Lately I tend to fall down," he says. "That's all right I tend to pick things up. I'm a hoister," she responds...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...finally short-circuits and decides to challenge God to prove his existence by descending into a cave and waiting for a sign, Allison nurses him back to health. "Lately I tend to fall down," he says. "That's all right I tend to pick things up. I'm a hoister," she responds...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...sheet when he went to William Allen White, swore to work hard, not get tight. Pressing grindstone to his nose, he wrote a batch of rhyming prose. Walt Mason's doggerel, couched in slang, hit the syndicates with a bang; rich, respected, worth his salt grew reformed Booze-hoister Walt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Milestone: Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Newsstand-buyer Spahling's meaning is obscure but presumably "hister," pronounced with the "i" long, means "hoister" or "beer-hoister," slang noun.-ED. † The print order of this issue is 154,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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