Word: shoveling
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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...American manners and customs at table, in which it was pointed out that our meals should be plain and simple, well cooked, and served in such a way that our dinner should be a time of enjoyment, and not a vexatious delay, in our fierce rush through life, to shovel in enough food to keep the machine going for a day. The writer said that Harvard was trying to refine her sons by obliging them to have three separate courses at dinner, and, though that particular reform may have been unnecessary, there is certainly plenty of room for further improvements...
Heats a red shovel for sheeoge...