Word: slag
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...fund, through betting on himself. When things look their blackest, Big Steve learns that his faithless sweetheart really gave the money to her old friend Bill, who bet it on the professional. Big Steve fishes the bearer of the news, Mrs. Finney's little boy, out of a slag box just before a mass of red-hot slag pours into it. Afterward he smashes Bill Morgan's jaw, takes the money back, confers with Mrs. Finney about matrimony...
...chill morning last week the ranking Democrats of Pennsylvania halted election celebrations to journey to a slag-piled hill near the town of McAdoo. There Governor-elect George H. Earle stood beside a freshly-turned grave. There, too, stood Senator-elect Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence, onetime Commonwealth Secretary Richard J. Beamish. Presently 10,000 mourners gathered from nearby towns, began to chant the Requiem responses in a half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian...
...that has been there for at least 500 years. ... I find it difficult to believe in the God who inspired the creators of Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult to believe in the debenture-holders who inspired the creators of the Black Country slag-heaps and the Durham 'tips'. ... I cannot help feeling that this new England is lacking in character, in zest, gusto, flavour, bite, drive, originality, and that this is a serious weakness. . . . We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. Anybody who imagines that this is a time for self-congratulation...
Suddenly in the darkness a bugle sang out "Cease Firing!" feet tramped in martial unison up the road, over the slag heap. Governor Leslie, declaring martial law, had called out guardsmen to lift the siege of the Dixie Bee. From Terre Haute, twelve miles north, 820 infantrymen had arrived by bus. Out of the fan house, the office, the boiler room, streamed an exhausted, grimy band of workers, overjoyed at their rescue...
...recent writing which, finding pugilism a subject suitable for one-syllable prose, has diligently deprived it of whatever romantic aspects it may once have possessed. The rest of Lady & Gent is in quite another mood. At the house where they suspect the manager has hidden the money, Puff and Slag find instead a small boy. They adopt him. Slag gets a job in the steel mill. Puff becomes a model hausfrau. They send the boy through school and college. The climax arrives when the youth, already a college football hero, wants to become a professional prizefighter. In a desperate attempt...