Word: shovelful
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...Midnight Flyer" at noon during an eclipse, but at present chief throttle pusher of the fast 'Oriole Limited" who prides himself upon his wrestling prowess. His troubles start when Luke Beamish, "what the world lacked when they built the Panama Canal" when it comes to getting "hot" with a shovel, is taken off the old "Isobel" and made his fireman. Luke is the father of the prettiest girl of the railroad yards, or something like that, and Casey as well as Superintendent Sweeney's collegiate son manage to run into plenty of milk cans and fall off plenty of platforms...
...young lawyer-tall Warren Gamaliel Harding whose fine looks and big voice made as good an impression on men in billiard parlors as they did on girls at parties or buggy riding. While Daniel Richard Crissinger was building up a big practice, including the counselorship of the Marion Steam Shovel Co.,* and becoming president of the National City Bank & Trust Co. of Marion, Warren Harding was moving right on up in politics. He became a U. S. Senator and then, one summer, sat on his front porch and waited for his friends to make him President of the United States...
...From the four brown walls of this house, little red worms leaned out, their slim questioning bodies bowing and writhing from round tunnels, like windows or portholes, as they sensed their purveyor working. He, "Joe" (last name unspecified in despatches), struck at one of the worms with a shovel, cutting him in two. Then, about to slaughter another, he scanned the walls of the house he was building. The walls were alive with tiny reptiles. Sliding out of their tunnels, they came writhing into the grave and slithered about his feet. Ten, 20, 30, he counted, standing in amaze...
...Farmers in Newell, S. Dak., gave President Coolidge one small gold irrigation shovel, two sheep, then offered to give him a farm of 160 acres on condition that he would settle thereon with sheep and shovel. Said the President: "These presents round out just what I need to be a farmer in South Dakota. ... I have been presented with a fine saddle horse and accoutrements. ... I am the possessor of a herd of cattle...
...last mists of doubt concerning the abilities of their sex. To the average man, however, it is an occasion for wonder if not for alarm. It is doubtful if among all the men who have crossed their Atlantic, one has offered, just for the fun of it, to shovel coal; what is more, it is doubtful if one ever will, unless driven to it by the similar activities of the girls on board. It is a new, and unpleasant possibility. Is stoking in the hold to the other diversions of a sea-journey? Echo answers, not if it can possibly...