Word: shovellers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Philadelphia and Princeton, flew to Richmond. In Chicago last fortnight the Bishop of Exeter addressed the Sunday Evening Club on peace, the subject which-with disarmament, cancellation, hands-across-the-sea- he has been preaching everywhere. Then he returned to Manhattan, where earlier he had been seen, gaitered and shovel-hatted, walking on Fifth Avenue in the early morning and once, at 7 a. m., reading his Bible in Central Park, although he had been to a late party the night before...
...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...