Word: spading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spade bearded Bishop Cherontie of Constanta beamed with pride, announced that Ileana's candlestick would stand on the Cathedral's high altar, its candles never to be snuffed...
...Kansas City, Mo.. Charles M. Hofman and his wife called upon Mr. and Mrs. John G. Bennett, played argumentative bridge. Toward the end of the game Mr. Bennett bid a spade, Mrs. Bennett raised him to four spades, showed a "rather good hand." When he failed to make the bid. Mrs. Bennett called her husband a "bum bridge player," whereupon he leaned across the table, slapped her face. She excused herself from the room, rummaged in a trunk for a revolver, returned and shot him dead...
...into the open lifted their veil secrecy, and broke ground for the Ne Houses. There was no fanfare of trumpets no cutting of silver ribbons or leaking of ginger-ale bottles President Lowell was not even at hand to be photographed turning over the first sod with a silver spade. It was a very business-like affair. A steam shoved appeared on the scene planted itself in a point of vantage and began to soop. The deed was done...
Edsel Ford dug the first turf last week for a new Ford plant in Degenham, Essex, England. So manfully dug he that he bent his silver spade. The factory, to be finished in less than three years, will employ 15,000, make 300,000 Fords yearly...
...evening in late September there was a stud-poker and high-spade game in the apartment of one James Meehan. It lasted 24 hours. Meehan did not play, but received a percentage for the use of his premises. The players were Arnold Rothstein; George McManus, brother of a Manhattan police Lieutenant, Meyer Boston, shrewd Manhattan "operator"; Edward C. ("Titanic") Thompson, Chicago plunger; "Nigger Nate" Raymond, San Francisco sport; and a few lesser figures. Raymond was the big winner and a slick-looking fellow called "Tough Willie" McCabe, onetime Chicago beer-legger, was supposed to have a half interest...