Word: spadefuls
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...Windsor, Ont. Arthur Ryan pleaded not guilty to killing his neighbor's rooster, asserted that the rooster had committed suicide by cutting its head off with a spade...
Theodore Dreiser is a bluff, sort of a spade-a-spade fellow. He was dining out at one of the Harvard houses the other evening where it happened that the head tutor was a former Rhodes scholar, and of course you know what that means. In case you don't, it means that he affects a small, rather amusing moustache. The head tutor was about to break bread with Dreiser as a fellow literary man; warming up to him, a little, if a head tutor could he so described, Said Mr. Dreiser, firmly and loudly: "Say, that's quite...
...four years Afghanistan's hero has been her King, bespectacled, spade-bearded, ruthless Mohammed Nadir Khan. In 1929 Afghanistan was a shambles. Nadir's nephew King Amanullah, whose Western reforms so angered Afghans, had fled the capital (TIME. Dec. 24, 1928 et seq.). On the throne sat bloody Bacha Sakao, an upstart chief whose name meant "The Water Boy." Backed by the royal family's bribes of the Durani, Uncle Nadir marched on Kabul. He caught one of the Water Boy's favorite generals and his staff, boiled them all in vegetable oil. Water Boy picked...
...square, the defending champion sank a 45-ft. putt for a two. It made her one up for the first time in 21 holes. Trying desperately to catch up, Helen Hicks had a good chance at the 9th, until her opponent laid her a dead stymie. A 75-yd. spade shot that stopped three inches from the cup at the 12th put Miss Van Wie three up. On the 15th, both balls were on the green in two, but Helen Hicks's had bitten into the soft turf and picked up a patch of mud. She putted three times...
...miles away in Rome there was more news to excite the Italian War Office. Il Duce himself took over the new Ministry of National Defense, combining Army, Navy and Air. Marshal Italo Balbo became Chief of Staff, another reward for his spectacular Chicago flight. Benito's other favorite, spade-bearded Dino Grandi, returned to his old post as Foreign Minister...