Word: spades
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...letting him spend the little energy that life had left to him. One day last week Koman went out to feed the ducks. Rupor followed him querulously, complained that he wasted food, showed favoritism to the handsomer ducks. High words- rascal, duck-dodger, miser-followed. Rupor struck with a spade, Koman fell down dead. The policemen who came for Rupor found him asleep...
...lies neither to himself nor to her, and Paul Wychart, brotherly Virginian, makes an illuminating tale. Miss Pharall is plausible in her picture of a feminine heart both fine and philosophic. She has a knack for reproducing conversation, shunning mere smartness and the convention of constantly calling a spade a filthy thing of stench infernal. She does, however, find it easier to commence than to close the psychological complications...
THREE KINGDOMS-Storm Jameson-Knopf ($2.50). One of the first things that will strike you about Miss Jameson is that she belongs to that widening circle of young Britishers who have fallen into the habit of calling a spade a double-blank, worm-turning, corrupt appendage of his Satanic majesty. Some call it the return of Elizabethan zest, all this hardriding, goddamning and firing of bon-mots that whiz like shells by night but look like duds in the morning. Caroline, the female cad of this chronicle, is said to have served Love, "the capricious boy who makes bedfellows...
...Middletown, N. Y., a stream overflowed, covered with water the garden of one Louis Bell so that, in the night, a 15-lb. German carp slank into his yard, began to feed upon the carrots, the asparagus. Bell rushed out, beat the carp to death with a spade...
...surface, old remains from former buildings have been found. An English penny, dated 1742, the year of the erection of Holden Chapel, was found several days ago by the foreman. Tony, close beside the chapel. A silver spoon of the pre-Revolutionary period was turned up by a spade yesterday. A host of other articles found during the excavating last fall have been retained and catalogued...