Word: shovelful
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...into his boiler. It made a great deal of noise. It was 3:40 (he was off at 6) when Gobel went out in the yard for his next look around. It was his last one. This time there was noise in the boiler room but not from the shovel. Weigand scrambled over the coal pile. A slug shattered his right arm. He dropped his gun on the coal. He picked it up with his left hand. Outside he thought he saw some figures running. He fired at them. Then he fell down, shot...
...station. There a sleepy-eyed crowd, many school children, heard him tell how Charleston's chemical industry had waxed fat and strong behind the protecting bulwark of the Republican tariff. A lusty cheer rolled out when the President recalled that he, too, had once worked with pick & shovel in a mine...
...Methodist Church at West Fairlee offered him its pulpit. He accepted. He even got the three Roman Catholic families in the district to send their children to his Sunday School. Preacher Rose makes the 28-mi. round of his three parishes in an old automobile, carrying in winter a shovel to dig his way. He calls regularly on all his 700 parishioners, preaches three times every Sunday. Says he: ''On the side roads, one has to walk in the winter time. . . . West Fairlee is a lovely village...
...Corcoran. Calif., when arraigned on a charge of hitting his wife with a hoe, meticulous Julio Rodriquez denied the charge, declared it was not a hoe but a shovel...
...first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo witch-doctor he will shoot his sixth, silver bullet at a squirming, greenweed crocodile. But other black men will come after...