Word: shoveler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole film is produced with a couple of million and a flourish, the script lays it on with a shovel, the music is superb, the pace is gusty, and the whole thing is swell stuff...
Because of recent dry weather, the work is progressing under very favorable conditions. Parkhurst said, adding that the excavations should be completed within the next few days. The University construction gang is using 10 trucks and a "steam" shovel to remove the 10,000 cubic feet from the pit, which will be 28 feet deep on its Quiney Street side and 21 feet deep on the Widener side...
...Reed once sat at the feet of Boston's late great Novelist William Dean Howells; in 1933 she exhibited some of her sculpture at the Chicago World's Fair; only six years ago at 63 she put in half a day's work with a shovel digging Moscow's subway...
Star of the revival was shovel-mouthed, small-voiced Joe E. (for Evan) Brown, who has played the role before, both on the stage and in the movies, is a plausible and funny Elmer. Marvelous to witness was the enthusiasm with which he tore through food at each performance. In the course of an hour and a half as Elmer, he consumes a slice of ham, a batch of fried potatoes, four griddle cakes with syrup, a piece of pie, two cups of coffee, two apples, half a grapefruit, a glass of orange juice, two doughnuts, a slice of toast...
Lean on your shovel to pass time away...