Word: shovelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father Hoffmann's rejoinder was that he was interested not a whit in rank, that his place was with the boys of the ist Battalion. He stayed with us. Wherever the going was toughest on the front line, you'd see Hoffmann strolling along with a shovel. With this he'd scoop out a little depression and then get horizontal for a few minutes beside some G.I. Having spoken, he'd move...
...tenth to one-half of one percent of the population [of Quebec] should not be taken too seriously. . . . Senator Bouchard is one of those who assert that a spade should be called a spade but sometimes . . . he is apt to refer to such an implement as a steam shovel...
...Kirkland Lake she met and married Prospector Ernest Martin, later a partner of Sir Harry Oakes who was murdered in the Bahamas last year. Together the Martins wielded pick & shovel in bitter cold weather to make their properties produce. The properties obliged nobly. At one time th? Martins owned 90,000 shares of Lake Shore mining company stock-$50 a share. Mary Martin, 69, and weather-beaten, died in Oakville, Ont. last December. Last week her will, filed for probate, disclosed that she left $71,700 in real estate, $17,686 in mortgages, $28,138 in jewels...
...think the whole situation can be summed up in the word "jealousy." ... (I am a member of the Women's Land Army, age 22, am a tractor driver and steam shovel operator, and until two years ago I was a shorthand typist...
...tide of war turned, he wrote again with his old vigor. The country felt his weight until he died. Canada had long offered him honors: a Cabinet post, appointment as first Minister to Washington, a knighthood. Dafoe had said: "Me a knight? Why, I tend my own furnace and shovel snow off my porch." He would, he said, remain a writing man. A writing man he died...