Word: shovelful
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...Composer Joseph Haydn's closest friends and sincerest admirers was a phrenology enthusiast named Carl Rosenbaum. Two nights after Haydn's funeral in 1809, Rosenbaum took a shovel, a lantern and a brace of helpers to the fresh grave. When he left, he carried Haydn's head under his arm. His purpose: to save the great man's cranium for the study and admiration of future phrenologists...
...middle of a gloomy, unheated factory building in Yokohama, a group of Japanese and American businessmen solemnly lined up last week behind a white-robed Shinto priest and faced a bright orange-colored power shovel. Waving branches of the sakaki (sacred tree) before a makeshift altar, the priest intoned: "On this felicitous occasion, we pray for the continued magnanimity of the gods in showing favor to this undertaking...
...hero (Jeff Chandler) is the strong, noisy type: all things to all men, but just one thing to women. Off to a jungle island to shovel out some tin, he first digs a blonde (Marilyn Maxwell). The next thing that comes to hand is a native princess (Suzan Ball). Eventually, Jeff gets fed up with his babes in the woods, and goes to bed with a bottle of whisky. "Sleep," he murmurs, "that's the stuff that knits the raveled sleave of care." But one session with Bartlett does not make an egghead, and next day Jeff is right...
...Happy Time. In Milwaukee, Fred De Vorse Sr., asking a divorce from his wife Phyllis, testified that she had 1) kicked him so hard that she caused a hernia, 2) crashed a shovel into the rear of his car, "bruising" window glass and denting the luggage compartment, 3) used "vile and abusive" language...
...Plan B Council to argue against buying new snow plows of which the city owned not even one. He observed that as "the Almighty sends the snow, . . . He will in time remove it." For in those days it was politically wise to remove snow with the hand-shovel power of unemployed friends. Lyons was later convicted on 42 counts of bribery...