In a few days, stone cold sober, he will have died of pneumonia looking for a job as a sandhog. From Wordnik.com. [A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)] Reference
I can show you figures that prove it's safer to be a sandhog in the Moon than it is to be a file clerk in Des Moines-all things considered. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
With no formal training, he relied mainly on intuition, his childhood memories of exploring the work of ancient Rome, and his more recent experiences as an East Coast sandhog. From Wordnik.com. [A Garden Grows Underground] Reference
In today's pictures, people listen to a speech by India's prime minister, a Libyan rebel fighter receives medical aid, a 'sandhog' works on a new subway line in New York and more. From Wordnik.com. [Photos of the Day] Reference
Last week we reported that our favorite piece of sandhog hardware, the massive Tunnel Boring Machine. From Wordnik.com. [Gothamist] Reference
"Lighting essentially consisted of the different temperatures of sandhog worklights, yet the images we achieved are incredibly powerful, with great depth of field.". From Wordnik.com. [Creative COW News] Reference
In the time-honored, ever-engrossing journalistic tradition of living the life of your subjects, Rosenstein, a self-described white-collar filmmaker, became a working sandhog, to the extent of becoming a member of the Laborers 'International Union and earning an explosives license. From Wordnik.com. [Creative COW News] Reference
“I needed money, and I wasn’t that good a piano player and I was not what you’d call the world’s outstanding sandhog,” he recalled. From Wordnik.com. [STAR] Reference
Pop Mannion’s great-grandfather made it by being crushed to death when a wall of the pit where he was working as a sandhog caved in on top of him and six other men and a horse. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
He lived on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, worked at odd jobs, including dishwasher, bricklayer’s assistant, construction worker, sandhog in the Lincoln Tunnel, and piano player at Claven’s on W. 52nd Street. From Wordnik.com. [STAR] Reference
(1943), with Colbert as a fashion photographer who falls for a sweaty sandhog (MacMurray) digging a tunnel under the Hudson; and Chester Erskine's 1947 hit "The Egg and I," with Colbert and MacMurray as city folk struggling to operate a chicken farm. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
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