Word: roustabout
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Poet Carl Sandburg, onetime roustabout, hay pitcher, milkwagon driver, stove polisher, house painter, soldier (in the Spanish-American War in Porto Rico with the 6th Illinois Volunteers), newspaperman, is 52, married (he has three daughters), lives in Elmhurst, Ill. Long-haired, lanky-limbed, seamed of face, he likes to recite poetry, sing folk songs, while he accompanies himself on his guitar. Says he: "Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." Other books: Chicago Poems, Corn Huskers,' The Chicago Race Riots, Smoke and Steel, Slabs of the Sunburnt West, Rootabaga Stones, Rootabaga-Pigeons, Abraham Lincoln...
...Author. Jim Tully, onetime transcontinental tramper (three times across), farm laborer, link heater, circus roustabout, chainmaker, prizefighter, newspaperman, tree surgeon, was born near St. Marys, Ohio, 1891, now lives in Hollywood, Calif. Other books: Emmett Lawler, Beggars of Life, Jarnegan, Life of Thomas H. Ince, Life of Charlie Chaplin, Circus Parade, Shanty Irish...
...youth Tom Slick went West to seek his fortune. Starting in the oil fields of Southern Illinois, he followed the derricks as roustabout, mule-skinner, tool-dresser, driller. With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted." No oil. More dollars; another dry hole. Again he drilled. Oil. Fortune. He sold his first holdings for $2,500,000, and took a flier in rails, in utilities. But oil paid better. He returned to the fields, making more money to buy rail holdings. Fortune turned to vast fortune. He built a railroad...
...that a good girl should be, may well be surprised now to see her impersonating, with much undue undulation, a French girl who dances in a Moroccan port-town public house. Behind her, one catches a glimpse of the entire U. S. Navy, but especially of one roustabout bluejacket to whom Actor George O'Brien has given his first name and a good characterization. A mere word, spoken in jest by this gay and murderous tar, persuades the dancing girl to visit Manhattan, where she is last seen, in the midst of her loose and double jointed motions...
...comic realism as does the U. S. tabloid press. What digs the vein deeper than it is ever dug by dramatic U. S. journalism or journalistic U. S. drama, is a thrust of reason which Europeans do not fear to exert in their most fantastic moods. Franzi, the roustabout hero of Peripherie, murders a wealthy patron of his harlot sweetheart. He successfully disposes of the corpse but is hounded by his conscience into confessions, which none will believe. Theatre-goers to whom spoken German conveys no meaning may miss the specific but not the general philosophizing. A thumb...