Word: stockman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William A. West '49 will play the lead role of Dr. Stockman, director Ted Allegretti '47 revealed, while John L. Hedges '48 and Edward L. Benedict '46 were assigned respectively to the parts of Peter Stockman and Hovstad...
Other members of the cast include: Robert F. Miller '43 as Alaksen; Robert M. Cipes '50, Billing; Judith Nelson, Radcliffe '50, Petra: Miss Elise Diamond. Mrs. Stockman; and Paul 1. Sparer '48, Kill...
...heavy and oppressive over the flat, treeless prairies of the Texas Panhandle. It was getting on toward supper time. In the little town of White Deer (pop. 500), Stockman H. W. Holmes stood in his front yard, uneasy in the muggy closeness. Suddenly, in the lowering clouds to the west, he saw a black, towering funnel, wavering, twisting, clutching at the earth. There was a deep-toned rumble "like a fast freight train." Said Holmes: "It hit an oncoming freight train just outside of town, and they tell me that 19 cars and two cabooses went off the rails...
Congressman Lowell Stockman, towering (6 ft. 6) wheat farmer from Oregon, improved his leisure in Washington by conducting (incognito) parties of rubberneckers through the Capitol. He thought it might "improve my public speaking" and even teach him a few things. After a few days he reported it had done both; he enjoyed it so much he planned to stay at the job for another week...
...Quickest way to make an Aussie boil was and is to tell him unjustly that his bloody island lacks culture. Without "bloody," Australians could not talk. An Aussie poem (circa 1904) made the point: The sunburnt bloody stockman stood And, in a dismal bloody mood, Apostrophised his bloody cuddy; The bloody nag's no bloody good, He couldn't earn his bloody food! A regular bloody brumby. Bloody...