shovers

Updated: May 9, 2025

'Th' boss give it to me to bring it up to date, he says. 'They was no sthrike last year an' we've got to put a sthrike plank in th' platform or put th' prisident iv th' Lumber Shovers' union on th' county board, an', he says, 'they ain't room, he says. "'Why, says Lafferty, 'ye ought to know th' histhry iv platforms, he says. An' he give it to me, an' I'll give it to ye.

Finley Peter Dunne - Mr. Dooley's Philosophy

He acquired an array of confidence men and hotel beats and queer shovers and bank sneaks and wire tappers and drum snuffers. He made a mental record of dips and yeggs and till-tappers and keister-crackers, of panhandlers and dummy chuckers, of sun gazers and schlaum workers. He slowly became acquainted with their routes and their rendezvous, their tricks and ways and records.

Arthur Stringer - Never-Fail Blake