A BROTHEL madam, an ex-Black Panther, a teamster and a self-styled "Papa Smurf" all got together for a debate on Long Island.
The son of Irish immigrants, Furphy worked as a thresher, teamster, and gold miner before settling down in 1884 at his brothers' foundry at Shepparton.
Vulgar and crass, Lily is a lush who lets inappropriate comments spill out of her mouth with alarming regularity (at one point, referring to her young daughter, she says, "this one has that dyke look – she looks like a teamster").
Later that year he became a teamster with the great freighting enterprise Russell, Majors and Waddell, creators of the Pony Express, for which he was too tall and heavy to be a rider.
Big Bill heard about it and announced, "No known Teamster member can compete in a NASCAR race, and I'll use a pistol to enforce it".
In 1986, Paul Avrich nominated George Meng, a Chicago teamster and militant anarchist, whose family had preserved the secret that "he was the one".
November 7 2012 December 16 201212 In Bruce Graham's drama, Gunner (Peter Strauss) is a tough retired teamster with Alzheimer's whose more lucid moments are occupied with feeling shame about his less lucid moments.
The door opened almost at once, and I found myself looking not at the downy-haired wisp I had been imagining, a human plume that would be lofted into Heaven by the next puff of merciful breath from the mouth of the Most High, but a thick, squat, square-jawed teamster, crewcut and clean-shaven, smoking a fat cigar.
(Imagine, he asks us, "how I must have laughed at myself every time my poet's hand was called upon to weigh out two ounces of tea, or measure half a yard of 'pigtail' " — chewing tobacco — "now to a cobbler, now to a teamster").
Aside from Parsons and a teamster named Samuel Fielden, the defendants were of German ethnicity: Michael Schwab had assisted Spies in editing the movement's German-language newspapers; George Engel and Adolph Fischer had belonged to a militant cell; Louis Lingg, a wild young man, had dabbled in bomb-making; and Oscar Neebe, a yeast-maker, had served on a few anarchist committees.
It wasn't a Teamster, United Autoworkers official, or anyone from the public-sector battles in the Midwest.
