Word: spadeful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dilapidated mortgaged farm lent them by an uncle go unemployed John Sims (Tom Keene) and his wife Mary (Karen Morley). Living on sardines and hacking forlornly at the soil with a spade, they are happy to take in a passerby and his family who have been dispossessed. John puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit...
...John Reeves Ellerman was one of the least publicized and richest men in the world. An impressive fellow with a great spade beard and a hawk nose, he owned and operated some half-dozen lines of steamers, besides great quantities of real estate and at one time a string of newspapers and a batch of London smart-charts. Living in an almost miserly simplicity, he was only a vague name to most Britons, despite his fat checks to British charities. His last charity occurred when he died in Dieppe last July, aged 71, leaving an estate...
...Thorp, Isador Lubin, Milburn L. Wilson, William I. Myers. Below this top layer of the Brain Trust, however, are scores & scores of young unknowns in almost every department of the Government. Underlings on the payroll who rarely if ever see their President, they do most of the New Deal spade work for which their superiors in the spotlight get the credit. Some are assistant professors with new economic theories to administer. Others are brilliant young lawyers who actually write the bills which the President sends to Congress as part of his program. Many of them are in their...
Toward the end of a long, uneventful evening at contract bridge, North stretches, gapes, makes off to the kitchen to mix another round. East whispers something to South and West who nod and chuckle. Then East quickly sorts the 13 spades from the deck, stacks it so that every fourth card is a spade. North returns with the drinks to find East just beginning to deal. When North, gasping, has bid his grand slam, laid down his 13 spades and scored 3,240 points (vulnerable, redoubled), East leaps to the telephone, gets the local newspaper on the wire...
...even use the word "sue." This moderation in the use of words led one irate stockholder to jump to his feet and suggest that Samuel Seabury be named investigator instead of Elihu Root Jr. Mr. Aldrich replied that the directors had considered Mr. Seabury. but since the investigation spade work had already been done by the Senate committee's agents talents of different order seemed more important. Elihu Root Jr. had been picked for his experience in financial matters...