Word: sandhog
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...Time for Love (Paramount). To prove that photography can also be art, Claudette Colbert (an artistic photographer) ventures deep into a vehicular tunnel and is confronted by brusque, briskety Fred MacMurray (a sandhog). Stripped to the belt, bawling and brawling with his fellow sandhogs, Cinemactor MacMurray strikes Cinemactress Colbert as so photogenic that she instantly sets her tripod for him. But Mr. MacMurray will have no truck with Miss Colbert's arty shallowness. Says he: "If you want to buy some muscles, go out and get yourself a cheap cut of beef...
...radio for company, and if you don't go nuts between 10 a.m. and sundown, you're tough enough to laugh off anything." Fortnight ago, Fred Allen, with his razor-strop smoothness, put on a savage parody (Clipso, the aristocrat of soap chips, presents Susan Spavin, Girl Sandhog). In Ottawa, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s general manager, W. E. Gladstone Murray, said he was going to work up a new "code of good taste" for afternoon programs...
...head of the Mayors' lobby which is expert in raiding the Federal Treasury, that he is a fat little bumptious character, clowning and screaming dictatorially, posing for pictures in chef's hats, fireman's hats, cowboy hats, gas masks, baseball caps, motorman's caps, sandhog's helmets, catcher's masks, policeman's hats, or hatless-domineering, demure, strident, spectacular, funny, embarrassing-but never dignified. He is a civic combination of Billy Sunday, "Schnozzle" Durante, "Chico" Marx and a fire siren...
...wires, quotation ticker lines, traffic signal wires. Without suspending these services, the pipes and wires had to be slung from the flooring or rerouted on the surface. Where the cut & cover method was not adaptable, direct tunneling had to be done-sometimes with compressed air and a shield under sandhog conditions. Among other discomfitures: cold (subways take several years to warm...
...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...