barnstormer
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This was not the boring, tactical, chess-like match-up some pundits predicted but a barnstormer, living up to the pre-fight hype from fans and promoters.
From BBC ● May 18, 2024
In July, Fran Drescher, president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, railed against studio greed in a to-the-barricades barnstormer before calling for an unexpected actors’ strike that lasted 118 days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
The latest Atlanta Fed GDPNow estimate is up at 5.8% annualised and, while surely overstating things, this quarter looks like being a barnstormer.
From Reuters ● Aug. 21, 2023
When Obama misidentified the city he was in, the flub was attributed to a long day by a nation-trotting barnstormer, Jamieson said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2022
The Rialto—the haven of every disheartened barnstormer, the cradle of every would-be Hamlet!
From The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life by Eugene Walter
