Word: quarterway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro Barner Barry, 37, 493 lb., waistline, 66 in. shaped like a hogshead because "I drink good beer." They found him too fat to wedge into the police car. They called a patrol-wagon, budged him in with difficulty, shoehorned him through the central police station doorway, shouldered him quarterway through a cell door, pried him out, let him sit on a bench. In the morning they opened both the courtroom's double doors to arraign him before Judge Westropp where he pleaded not guilty. They sent him away. Fingernail...
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