Word: spading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were in the making, grandmamma took the place of television. When she was in the mood to remnisce, the grandchildren gathered round . . . She liked to talk about her youth, and one yarn went something like this: "The father of my firstborn was a Mr. Drybutter. He had a slack spade beard and a twinkle in his eye. The father of my second child, now let me see, what was his name? Bullfinch? Clapsaddle? For the life of me I can't remember! But I'll never forget Phineas Drybutter. A woman never forgets the father of her firstborn...
Package Deal. In Salina. Kans., a prowler stole $20 worth of fishing poles and reels from Claude W. Peters' garage, then borrowed a spade and dug for worms in Peters' backyard...
...Huguenot stock in a farmstead named Allesverloren (Everything Is Lost), which snuggled among the soaring mountains and vine-garlanded valleys of West Cape Province. In his parents' devout household, the rule was "Thou Shalt Not." Each evening "Danie" and his younger brother Fanie were called indoors to hear spade-bearded Papa Malan reading from his family Bible to his black servants...
...have been a father to hundreds of boys & girls," said he, "at a time when a little personal attention meant more than ' medical aid . . . This honor is in recognition of the importance of the position of custodian in the great process of education." Then he handed George a spade to break ground for the town's $375,000 new-school building. The name the town had given the school would be long remembered in Pueblo-George Willis Spann...
Probably the most interesting development, though, has been the speeches that college presidents, athletic directions, trustees, and coaches have been moved to make. There have been "realistic" and "idealistic" speeches-demands for calling a spade a spade and calling football a big business, mingles with pious requests that football be taken out of the hands of the big-time operators and given back to the students, as a game...