Word: mule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Watching hard-hitting, ex-Army Mule Shoer Lew Jenkins, world's lightweight boxing champion, hammer sparring partners around the ring, No. 1 Professional Tennist J. Donald Budge, noted for his own smashing attack, commented: "That's a snappy forehand drive Jenkins...
...began turning out barges, towboats, all manner of river craft. Prime mover of this sideline was big, nervous Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Jr., only son of Ingalls Iron Works' shrewd, crusty, hard-working president, who likes to say that he founded his business in 1910 "with a nigger, a mule and a wooden crane. ..." Pleased with his new sidelines, Father Ingalls two years ago agreed to build the big new yard at Pascagoula for the express purpose of getting part of the $1,000,000,000 Maritime Commission program...
...Mule Team (M.G.M.) contains, in addition to the 20 mules, two Beerys-Wallace and Noah Jr. Wallace is no surprise as a sly, slobbering, guzzling mule skinner employed by a borax company to haul its product out of Death Valley. Leo Carrillo is a big surprise as a pigeon-toed Indian. Biggest surprise of all is Marjorie Rambeau trying to act like a saloonkeeper...
...story is all about borax claim jumping and the love of Noah Beery Jr. for Saloonkeeper Rambeau's spoiled daughter (Anne Baxter). Its sandy wastes are punctuated by one good crack. Says Mule Skinner Beery describing his sire: "He had twelve other sons besides me. I was always the youngest and puniest. Gosh, he was a fine old feller! Never raised a hand to none of us boys-'cept in self-defense." If I Had My Way (Universal) will thrill countless admirers of Singer Bing Crosby by making him the foster father of Songstress Gloria Jean, Universal...
...ornery rivals go partners on a stump-sucking, tobacco-chewing, rum-drinking mule, bedevil each other for 30 years by further corrupting the mule in ways that will cause most trouble to the other...