Word: steeplejacks
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Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 51, No. 1 flagpole-sitter of the trivial '20s, has been spending his Sundays in a Connecticut jail for drunken driving. The arrangement keeps him from losing his steeplejack jobs. Of Brenda Frazier's ex-footballer "Shipwreck" Kelly, Alvin says: "I guess there's plenty of room for two of us as long as he don't go climbin' any poles." ∙ ∙ Racing Driver Kelly Carl Petillo, winner of the Indianapolis speedways in 1935, was charged with "suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon" on a Los Angeles cop. Petillo...
High in the gusty November sky, painting the top of the 165-ft. smokestack of the Wagner Brewery at Granite City, Ill., Steeplejack Bert Bareiter looked down and saw that the wind had fouled his hoist rope around a guy wire 60 ft. below. He climbed down hand over hand to untangle the rope. At this point occurred a horrifying industrial accident, followed by a notable act of industrial heroism...
Newshawks found bruised Steeplejack Bareiter at his St. Louis home, asked what an inverted steeplejack thinks about. "About how to get down," he answered...
Flagpole-painter and steeplejack extraordinary, George B. Drew deliberately expelled a cloud of cigarette smoke from his mouth...
...Steeplejack" is attempting to be practical about the whole of undergraduate life. Last spring the senior governing body, Palaeopitus, expressed the prevailing dislike of a phlegmatic campus by reviving Freshman Rules and similar kid stuff, which had formerly been tossed aside with raccoon coats in the days when "College Humor" was starting to slip. Revival was all right, but a lot of Seniors who knew the score, distrusted Palaeopitus's typical means of reviving. Hence "Steeplejack", a spearhead of no deceptive, mature revival of interest. The campus is sick of some of the labels applied in order to clarify...