Word: spading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dusty place for a flyer to stay in, a tall man had come quietly to his side and watched him at his work. The Negro asked his name but the man, as mysterious as a spirit, said merely "I was his friend." The stranger borrowed the Negro's spade and stood with his feet planted in the hole, lifting out the earth. For a moment he leaned back on his shovel; "So this is the end. . . ." he said. Then he stepped out of the grave and went away. In the silence, under a grey sky, the Negro went...
...corruption. Two pardons and a habeas corpus proceedings kept Mr. Magee at large. Magee's testimony of recent prosperity of Albert Bacon Fall was important evidence in the Teapot Dome scandal. Editor Magee is a fighting man, a bitter enemy of municipal, state or national corruption; calling a spade a spade and saying it with headlines. He is the new editor of the Oklahoma City News, Scripps Howard paper...
...call a spade a spade...
...Meek, once again a hilariously henpecked clergyman, spend-thriftily purchases eight kisses from Mrs. Amaranth at his own church bazaar. Thenceforward it is but a step until the glittering and ever competent Arthur Byron, this time a scheming Senator, gold digs "the Governor" successfully- using Miss Starr as his spade. Skilful acting by almost all hands does not redeem an unskilful script...
Finally Premier Briand called a spade a shovel: "M. Herriot, listen to me. I do not know what will be the outcome of this duel between...