Word: trowel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task dear to the President's heart last week was laying the cornerstone for the new Department of Commerce Building (TIME, May 6). He made a speech, wielded the same trowel George Washington used in laying the cornerstone of the Capitol...
...cornerstone of the new Internal Revenue Building was laid last week. Secretary Mellon, of course, was the official mason. It was raining, and he had to lean out from under a canopy to make the historic trowel strokes. Cameramen liked the pose and begged him, stooped over and splashed by the downpour, to "hold it." Always obliging, Mr. Mellon "held it" while the photographers jostled and squirmed for good positions...
They were very slow. The rain took no notice and kept pouring down. At length Mr. Mellon, still bent over with trowel poised, said patiently: ''Please hurry, won't you? You know, I'm not laying the whole building...
...Appropriately, the department noted the prevalence of beavers in the West. Beavers, like Beavermen, are natural engineers. Unlike Beavermen, they eat water lilies, taste like pork, have trowel-like, scaly tails...
...with a silly incessant guffaw. Owner of the pig, one Joseph St. George, deprived of sleep, surveyed his eccentric porker. He ordered a large plate of "swill" to be brought. This the pig ate greedily and continued hiccupping. Mr. St. George whacked the pig's back with a trowel; still the idiotic grunts continued. Then Mr. St. George soaked the pig with ice cold water; no cure. At last Joseph St. George came with a little perfumed sponge which he pushed against the. pig's snout. Soon the pig slept, the hiccups ceased. Weasel. Soup, beautiful soup. -LEWIS...