Word: rumpusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wolf isn't grandma; the next night Goldilocks makes a "three-bowl parlay" on the bears' porridge. Every few months he asks over his old musician friends-Manny Klein, Lennie Hayton, Joe Venuti, and whoever happens to be in town-for a jam session in his large rumpus room. Summers he packs the family off to the ranch near...
...headed boss of defense production, OPM's Knudsenhillman, showed his muscle last week in breaking up a labor rumpus. At the Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee, management and employe had rolled and wrestled for more than three weeks while work on $45,000,000 worth of Army and Navy contracts for turbines, shafts, pumps, gun parts ceased. Patience exhausted, Knudsenhillman sent identical telegrams to Milwaukee, urgently "requesting" spokesmen for both sides to hurry to Washington. There defense officials threw them at U. S. Conciliation Service Director John R. Steelman. At week's end Knudsenhillman, perspiring and triumphant, announced...
...Lamotte T. Cohu (in Los Angeles): "There simply isn't enough aluminum available. . . . [It is] bound to affect other aircraft concerns." Mr. Cohu was explaining why he had just cut his factory working day from 20 to 16 hours (in two shifts). His explanation shortly stirred up a rumpus...
John Astor Drayton, tall, 26-year-old great-great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor (who in 1937 was with John Roosevelt in Cannes the night there was a rumpus because someone squirted champagne on the Mayor), passed his physical examinations, headed for Fort Dix, N. J. with 191 other volunteers. "Come on, blue blood," yelled another rookie. "Right with you, chum," answered Drayton...
...looks after him (John Qualen); a dipsomaniacal, upper-class Englishman (Ian Hunter) trying to forget his shoddy past-also on a grim, gruff captain (Wilfrid Lawson). There is no sustained plot to occupy the men, only sporadic incidents such as a battering storm at sea, a drunken rumpus in a West Indian port with a bevy of native girls, a tingling passage through the war zone, a long-drawn debauch in London's waterfront pubs and brothels. For those whose interest in the sea is less intense than John Ford's, the endless incidents aboard ship without benefit...