dockhand

He was just “a sick old man” who talked like a dockhand and indulged in hyperbole.

We asked a dockhand where the jail was, and he told us straight up Union.

He dropped out of college and drifted to New York, where he worked as a dockhand, dance-hall bouncer, bodyguard and dish washer before returning to Florida in 1957 and enrolling in acting classes.

He dropped out of college and drifted to New York, where he worked as a dockhand, dance-hall bouncer, bodyguard and dish washer before returning to Florida in 1957 and enrolling in acting classes.

In turn, stevedores and dockhands and clerks furnished him with information and he scooped up the rascals on the threshold of deliverance.