Word: keg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago's keg-chested, kite-footed Adolph Kiefer, 23-year-old drama student, holds all five world's backstroke records. He has done 100 yards in 58.8 sec., 400 meters...
Next morning the Atlantic broke its silence: it tossed a girl's body against the oars of a Bailey Island fisherman. By nightfall six other women had been found floating in the bay, among them, Bessie Strople and Elizabeth Howard. Lashed to a small keg, Skipper Johnson was found, near him charred pieces...
...first row, but Dante has the knack of setting off each illusion with settings as grandiose as Little Egypt or Barnum and Breley. "Sim Sala Bim" is not just a series of card tricks but a continuous spectacle. One minute Dante draws gallos of beer from a dry keg, the next he is producing ghosts from empty cabinets and making one of his chorus (let's call it a chorus) girls vanish into thin...
Gustavo Cuervo Rubio, for help. Under Cuervo's guidance he plunged across the street, burst into the Council shouting: "Unconstitutionality!" Like a match in a powder keg, this touched off a fiery debate. Presently Mayor Menocal gave up, sat down. Now thoroughly humiliated-as the Communist-keyed majority of the Council intended he should be-Mayor Menocal decided they all might just as well hold the induction ceremonies in the Municipal Building...
...carnival music, Mystifier Dante whirled through an inferno of prestidigitatorial feats, transformed a tailor's dummy into a lady, made stooges vanish right & left. Loudly acclaimed was his trick of covering the open ends of a small beer barrel with paper, then distributing a few noggins from the keg among the audience. With dancing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious cabinets and livestock summoned out of nowhere, Sim Sala Bim provided plenty of pleasantly stupefying hokum...