Word: roustabout
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...Wolf River just before it joins the Mississippi) to the other end at East Street, a mile away. On Saturday nights the clatter of ragtime music mingled with the wail of ambulances. Its leading citizens have been as bizarre as Beale Street itself: "River George," a giant roustabout of bloody fame; "Tittiwee" and "Black Slick," both pimps; "Treetop Tall" and "Coal Oil Johnny," two policemen; "Speedway," a gambler; and "Dr. Scissors," a famed Beale Street medicine man. They frequented such dives as Peewee's, a citadel of early jazz, the Hole in the Wall, and such infamous gambling dens...
...Paul Ryan, who is still so pain-ridden that he can sleep for only an hour at a time and can hobble only short distances on a cane, was already a success at 40, when he was disabled in the Chicago crash. Pennsylvania-born, he had worked as a roustabout in Oklahoma oilfields, earned an engineering degree at M.I.T., became a sales engineer for Shell, rose to president of Cleveland's National Refining Co. After the accident, Ryan sold out of the company, lived on courage and painkillers as he struggled to walk again...
Sooth is a tale of the occult, its hero a colored roustabout seaman fleeing the violent end predicted for him by a "conjuh-woman." He switches from ship to ship and alias to alias. But always he hears the words of the soothsayer: "Wha'-foh you big teef shinin' to the sky? How come all this heah bullet-blood runnin' outen yoh skull-pate all oveh the groun...
...other Democrats by a plurality of nearly 90,000, but he also faced a runoff. A night-school lawyer who has never before run for public office, 47-year-old Murray has been a printer, reporter, salesman, cattle dealer, cotton-gin operator, farmer, interpreter, tool dresser, truck dispatcher, oilfield roustabout, and plant manager. His campaign slogan: "Just Plain Folks...
Internal Combustion. He was all sorts of things in the next three years-a foundry worker, a monument polisher (he carved his father's tombstone), a brewery hand, a railroad roustabout. But in 1905 he got a job in a garage, and fell in love forever with the internal-combustion engine...