Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything on Wheels. His principality now spreads from Canada to Mexico, from the Rockies to the Pacific. The unions encompassed by his Western Conference of Teamsters move virtually "everything on wheels" in the eleven western states. His men send enormous diesel rigs snarling across the Mojave Desert, drive hearses in Oakland, deliver laundry in Seattle, unload mining machinery in Butte...
Though truckers are the elite of the Western Conference, it is a corral which also contains dozens of other, oddly unrelated trades. In Beck's domain "teamsters" make beer, can fruit, dehydrate vegetables, sell and service automobiles, pump gasoline, work in warehouses, and clean suits. They are undertakers, cow punchers and aircraft mechanics...
...Siren of Slutsk. It reminded the editors of another, similar case: that of Galina Dubrovina, of the town of Slutsk in western Belorussia. Miss Dubrovina had actually kept a notebook with a special page entitled "My Fiancés." There she had scored nine young fellows under four headings: "Job-Salary-Year of Birth-Home Address...
...edition, at least-cricket and pugilism are as far removed as Capetown and Lord's, home pitch of London's swank Marylebone Cricket Club. Last week, as Freddie fought his fight in Johannesburg, Denis-in Capetown to play with the M.C.C. team against South Africa's Western Province Cricket Club-invited him to drop in at Newland's Cricket Pavilion...
Died. Genevieve Taggard, 53, much-anthologized poetess (For Eager Lovers, Calling Western Union) and biographer (The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson); of uremia; in Manhattan. Miss Taggard scored an early success with slight lyrics, later slipped when she tried to weight her verses with social significance...