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Word: steamshovel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skill. No profound intellectual, Dekker still possessed consummate wit, and produced a busty, gusty, lusty farce of great warmth and vigor. Teeming with bawdy doubles ententes, it makes Measure for Measure read like Sunday sermon. And when Dekker doesn't call a spade a spade, he calls it a steamshovel...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Shoemaker's Holiday | 7/19/1956 | See Source »

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