Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legendary figures in the industry is the steel roller, who in days such as the present makes fabulous wages. In the years 1916 to 1919, $40 a day would have been only an average salary. . . . One man would hold down two jobs in adjoining mills, working possibly from 7 to 3 in one plant and running over to the next one and working from 4 until midnight...
TIME has erred again in reporting the death of James Joyce (Jan. 20). Who but Joyce could have written your article entitled "Up the Roller Coaster" with its "patient, powerless, hopeful meaninglessness" and its "humping dizzily up that first clanking climb...
...might be inflation, a credit expansion out of sight and beyond control, rationing, priorities, guns-before-butter, taxes to ruin every season in the year. The one thing anyone could be sure of was that the U. S. was humping dizzily up that first clanking climb of the roller coaster on the way to a screaming whoosh beyond. Maybe everything was quiet, pleasant and peaceful on the other side-but people guessed...
...humor. Its chief asset is Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, 62, colored, who eats four quarts of ice cream daily, holds the world's speed record for running backwards (75 yards in 8.2 seconds) and is the greatest tap dancer in existence. Also easily appreciated is Paul Gerrits, an urbane, roller-skating master of ceremonies, and big, pasty-faced Red Marshall, who serves up vintage burlesque, including a Pullman-car scene entitled Red Rails in the Sunset. In the midst of his uncouth designs on women who are merely trying to retire, he announces: "I usually go to sleep as soon...
Fortnight ago, they had practically agreed to invite Texas A. & M. The Aggies, led by Jarrin' Jack Kimbrough, a 220-lb. steam roller, had mowed down 19 opponents in a row, were considered the best team the Southwest had ever seen. But in 57 agonizing seconds last week, the Farmers saw their $100,000 bid to the Rose Bowl vanish. At Austin, where no Texas A. & M. team has beaten Texas since 1922, the old jinx spurred a team of Longhorns that had been twice beaten this year to paralyze their old rivals with a lightning-swift stab. With...