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...denied even this. Hummon sent one Jimmy Dykes (237 boarlike pounds of smalltime politician) to sit at it instead. Said Jimmy, when Arnall arrived: "Ellis, you remind me of a hawg. Did you ever slop a hawg? The more you give him the more he wants and he never knows when to get out of the trough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Strictly from Dixie | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...Valhalla (Chicago branch) who have kept on playing jazz the old way, even after their pal Benny Goodman called it swing and made it a million dollar baby. There were no music stands or orchestrations to be seen at Eddie Condon's. "That's for organized slop," Eddie said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Club of His Own | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Soon Sailor Slobodkin (self-described as "a fat, soft guy with glasses") found himself loading cargo, eating slop and doing soogie moogie (scrubbing paint work) with a crew as oddly assorted as flotsam & jetsam on a beach. There was a union-conscious Portuguese named Perry. "His cross eyes seemed to set the motive for all his movement-when he'd sit down, he'd cross his legs, cross his arms . . . . I never saw him standing with his legs straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sculptor at Sea | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...Slop Jars. Across the land, the workers objected to lower pay, less interesting peacetime jobs. After all, prices were still geared to war. At a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce meeting, husky C.I.O. boss Philip Connally shouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Wanted: Glamor Jobs | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...Rosie the riveter isn't going back to emptying slop jars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Wanted: Glamor Jobs | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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