Word: spadeful
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...them, there is no doubt but that he will produce a tray of clubs, nicely grafted to those who deal in the traffic. The deuce of it is that there seem to be too many knaves in the pack, and no one seems to be ready to call a spade a spade...
...Scripps, like "Old Joe" Pulitzer used to wear a beard. "Bob" Scripps has been growing one since October. From a dubious trowel beard it has evolved into a handsome spade affair, Messianic full face and like Italos Balbo's in profile. Partner Howard's visage remains the same-chipmunkish, irrepressible, oriental. Quicker to read than their faces are their respective offices, high in the New York Central Building. One office (the door of which is rarely shut) is a harmony of brown oak with beamed ceiling, paneled walls, high bookshelves. The leaded panes of the windows are stained...
After his return to Ireland he became private secretary to his hero, the late great spade-bearded Charles Parnell. Home Rulers enthusiastically elected him to Parliament at the age of 25. At 28 he was arrested and imprisoned for making seditious speeches...
...lamb have settled their annual differences under the benignant influence of the April sun. Today another truce will be confirmed when the tiger from Nassau walks amicably by John Harvard's side. The hatchet has been buried for many months, but it will be a pleasure to throw another spade full of earth upon the grave...
Echoed the Great Man's alert, spade-bearded, snapping-eyed Foreign Minister, Signer Dino Grandi...