Word: shoveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reacts to the money proposition before she says 'Yes' to a marriage proposal. . . . Few grafts are more profitable than comforting a widower. But remember that fast work is required. . . . Girls write their own price tags. . . . Don't feed men flattery in hunks, with a shovel. They resent this." One Lure Men Can't Resist is: "The come-hither look in the eye, a sort of come-on look if you get what I mean...
...laid a tarpaulin. Why this has been done no Ford employe knows for sure, but most could hazard a sound guess: the furrow is to be preserved for posterity to look at; it will be included in the intriguing mass of Ford memorabilia which includes Luther Burbank's shovel (thrust into a block of concrete), a reproduction of the hole in the ground in Menlo Park, N. J., where Thomas A. Edison and his helpers threw their laboratory junk...
...York, New Haven and Hartford tracks near Newington, Conn, last week stood a work train with a power shovel mounted on a flat car. In the shovel's cab was Operator Burrell Wilhelm. His foot slipped and he fell against a control lever. At that moment a Montreal-Washington express, full of people who had gone to Canada to see the King and Queen of England, shot down the track. Burrell Wilhelm's cab swung out into the express train's path. It bounced off the locomotive, cut through the side of a day coach, tore open...
...Detroit, Mrs. Thomas J. Middleton, Negro, hired a steam shovel to dig holes in her back yard. A dream had revealed to her that gold was buried there. Neighbors were annoyed by the dust, smoke and noise. Said Mrs. Middleton: "They needn't be so uppity. I catch them digging in my back yard themselves at night since I had my visions...
...know what color toenails; but they are born the same as they were 20,000 years ago. And the boy babies, if God had been open-minded, would be born with one shoulder lower than the other, so they could more conveniently lean on a shovel...