Word: troweled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inch letters on the cornerstone of the new Supreme Court building which will rise on a bluff overlooking the Ottawa River. Unwary of the fact that Their Majesties' visit might be delayed, engravers had marked the stone as laid on May 19. Blithely, with an ivory-handled gold trowel, the Queen tapped the stone on May 20, declared it laid, chatted with a Scottish stone mason whose accent moved her to remark: "You haven't lost your tongue...
...precocious bricklayer. Born 28 years ago in the slums of West Hoboken, N. J., handsome Pietro di Donato was 14 when his father was killed in a construction accident, leaving a widow and eight children. Pietro, a "bricklayer in diapers," took up his father's bricklaying trowel, has supported his family ever since. In his off-hours he read everything in sight, especially Russian novels...
...anticipate that this will become a school to train leaders and, though them, the people at large how to translate democratic ideal of administration into living realities," declared Lucius N. Littauer '78 of New York City, founder at the "Silver Trowel" exercise last...
Disconcerted students, sunburnt, half-blinded, slapping mosquitoes, protecting their easels from Portuguese children, tried vainly to work eyes and ears into their pictures, complained that it was like painting with a trowel. They were embarrassed by Boston sightseers who, revolted by the "horrible, featureless, formless" shapes they painted, called them "mudheads." But they were impressed because Hawthorne seemed indifferent whether they stayed or left, spared nobody...
Reaffirming his belief that democracy can be made efficient, Mr. Littauer descended to spread the mortar for the cornerstone and the photographers. "This is for history," President Conant reassured him, as he held his pose, trowel in hand, for several minutes...