GR translation: Kelly crowbars

[Mark Kohut]

Seems Kelly crowbars were crowbars made by a high-quality company of
such commercial products. Entries as early as the early 1920s.

Commercial America - Volume 36 - Page 24

https://books.google.com/books?id=jt7mAAAAMAAJ
1939 - ‎Snippet view - ‎More editions
>From a small beginning, Kelly products gradually became known
throughout the entire United States and Canada for their outstanding
quality. Then demand from abroad for these polsihes which were honor
built started the Kelly Company in ...

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 1:23 AM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> V698.2-10, P711.32-712.1   Pirate Prentice saw one in 1936, during his
> excursion with Scorpia Mossmoon, at the Chelsea home of James Jello, that
> year’s king of Bohemian clowns—but a minor king, from a branch prone to
> those loathsome inbred diseases, idiocy in the family, sexual peculiarities
> surfacing into public view at most inappropriate times (a bare penis
> dangling out of a dumpster one razor-clear and rainwashed morning, in an
> industrial back-street about to be swarmed up by a crowd of angry workers in
> buttontop baggy caps carrying spanners three feet long, Kelly crowbars,
> lengths of chain, . . . .
>
> What is a "Kelly crowbar"?  I can't seem to find any relevant reference to
> it.
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