Word: sandhog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, Thomas ("Cheerful Tom") Nestor left work early. A sandhog, digging under the East River in an atmosphere of compressed air, he was eager to get home and tidy up the apartment to greet his wife next day when she returned from the hospital with their new baby. He hurried through the decompression chambers, found himself in normal air pressure too soon. At 3 a. m. he woke up choking, writhing with "the bends." Gasping for air, he staggered to a window, threw himself against the pane, fell to the sidewalk three stories below. His wife & baby remained...
...Life and Confessions; The Man Shakespeare; My Life and Loves); of asthma; in Nice. Fearless, blatant, egocentric, he had many bitter enemies, a few stanch admirers; his books were often attacked as obscene, sometimes suppressed. Fleeing school in Ireland at 14, he went to the U.S., worked as bootblack, sandhog, hotelclerk, cowboy, became a lawyer and a U.S. citizen. He went to Europe, drifted from one university to another, finally settled in London to edit The Saturday Review, for which he hired Max Beerbohm, Herbert George Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and which he made one of the great critical journals...