Word: stoker
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...mere housewife can do, I guess, is put out [a] cry of distress and have an oil furnace in the new house she hopes to build, instead of the coal stoker she originally planned. I don't intend to struggle with John L. Lewis every spring-for spring comes once a year...
...most unusual translation was that of Leading Stoker Walter Edwards, formerly of the Royal Navy, to Civil Lord of the Admiralty. There he will sit among the senior admirals. Before he was elected to Parliament (1942), Stoker Edwards was on the dangerous Murmansk convoy run. Next time he boards a battleship officially, he will be piped over the side, pass between saluting side boys...
...simple story of a Swedish coal-barge captain, his daughter and an Irish stoker, and the situation arising from her admission that she has been a prostitute, is not the supreme literary expression of man's conflict with the elements or the great American social document. The characters have a tendency to become types and the primary meaning of the play is often confused. The actors, although expertly directed in the mechanics of the play, have therefore concentrated on conforming to stock theatre types rather than on subtle and original characterizations...
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...Hairy Ape (United Artists), as Eugene O'Neill conceived him, was a one-man proletariat, a crude yet powerful symbol. A huge, half-demented ship's stoker, he was obsessed with the proud idea that he made the ship go, and ready to beat the brains out of anyone who attempted to gainsay him. He lost his mind when a slumming, crisply clad, attractive woman passenger, appalled (and excited) by his looks and language, recoiled and called him "the filthy beast!" At large ashore, he treated society much as an articulate King Kong might, and wound up in the killing...