Word: lantern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea current in Washington, however, was that neither side at Allis-Chalmers-union or management-cared passionately about settling the dispute. President of the C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers local which called the walkout is tall, lantern-jawed Harold Christoffel, who has been labeled a Communist fellow traveler. The Socialist Party recommended his expulsion from its ranks in 1938, on that suspicion. Before he had to face the charge (which he denied), Christoffel resigned. He and his supporters rejected a Knudsenhillman formula for settlement of this strike...
...second successive year, Massachusetts' lantern-jawed Governor Leverett Saltonstall outskated lantern-jawed Quizman John Kieran in two grueling races (one a dash, the other an "endurance race" of two laps) at Boston's Country Club. Back at the State House, the Governor remarked easily, when Elevator Operator Dick Morrissey congratulated him: "It's good to keep in condition." Result: the Governor, challenged by Morrissey, went into training for a foot race to be held along the Charles River Esplanade...
...because it thinks the day may come when a sizeable, trained army will be necessary for defense. But a permanent system of drafting young men who have the right to live their own lives when their nation is at peace, violate both democratic privilege and sound reasoning.--Ohio State Lantern...
Popeye is a hot-tempered, bulge-muscled, lantern-jawed sailorman created by the late Cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar...
...sings neither well nor ill. Let specialists define her talent. The important thing is that she sings as a torch burns. She is alternately the geranium of the suburbs, the scar of crime, the lantern of the brothel and the whistle of the police. "Cocteau...