Word: pickaxe
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...Verona, Italy, Domenico Pinterle and Luigi Martini decided to duel, respectively selected a spade, a pickax...
Ancient though it is, Rome got around to building a subway for the first time only last week when Benito Mussolini swung a pickax with such vigor that he cracked a paving stone in the Piazza Bocca della Verità. Five thousand Fascist workmen are to build the four miles of subway in four years, by that time will probably be as proud as the overpropagandized Red toilers in Moscow who through Intourist interpreters ask travelers: "Is it not wonderful that the Soviet form of State has enabled us to build a subway? You have no subway...
...cover of his brother's first songbook Artist Gellert drew a barrel-chested, barefooted black convict wearing a ball& chain and resting on his pickax while he wiped the sweat from his face. Of the songs, some are mournful, some grim, some comic. But each one has its grievance. In I Went to Atlanta...
...Galveston flood in 1900 she put on male clothes, shouldered a pickax, was the first reporter through the lines. Climbing over piles of corpses, she filed an exclusive story, organized an emergency hospital, got Publisher Hearst to send relief trains. Another time, disguised as a Salvation Army lass, she visited the "lowest dives" of the Barbary Coast, wrote a stirring series on vice. She covered the Thaw murder trial, interviewed everyone from Sir Henry Irving to President Harrison, visited the leper colony at Molokai. When Mr. Hearst's mother died in 1919, "Annie Laurie" wrote the official press obituary...
...York's Senator Copeland asked him if "he was there and saw liquor consumed," adding that he (Copeland) could not get into the Century Association "with a pickax...