Word: troweling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Titanic rather than get into a lifeboat while women and children were still aboard. Jack's father, Jesse Isidor, spread Macy's out from Newark to Toledo before he became Franklin Roosevelt's first Ambassador to France. Jack himself was practically born with a silver trowel in his hand; he used it at the age of two to lay the cornerstone of the present store. Ever since, he has seemed fated for his current...
Shoveled Cream. If Gunther had left it at that, his book would be a fascinating fictionalized reminiscence. Unfortunately, he succumbs to the Viennese weakness for whipped cream, mountains of it, wherever possible. After a connubial kiss on page 20-"Bending over and with his hand cupped like a trowel he lifted her chin"-Jarrett's hand more often resembles a shovel. His amatory adventures are mawkish, his professional exploits downright unbelievable: before the book's end he has even manned a machine gun to help fight off the Heimwehr...
...other and for a formula fadeout. The younger Mills, abrim with mental health and ebullient spirits and thus strikingly miscast, suggests that she alone knows what it is that makes this Garden grow. Potash? Peat moss? Lime? No, just gobs and gobs of Pollyannalysis, laid on with a silver trowel...
...Ansley Park-a settlement of houses about half a century old in the center of the city. Nelson and Sara Frank and their four children have ten main rooms and four baths, plus four porches. "You have to be sort of handy with things like a plasterer's trowel," says Sara Frank. "But it's so centrally located that you can walk a block to the public library and get a book on plumbing...
...poach eggs for 20 people or sleep in a tent." What is the appeal of archaeology to an amateur? Finding skeletons and pots, yes. But, adds Miss Chase, after being winterbound in Manhattan, "It's so nice to sit in the sunshine and scrape the earth with a trowel...