Word: forkfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following directions will suffice those men who decide to go via Springfield and Hartford: Follow Route 5 from Boston through Worcester to North Wilbraham. About a mile beyond North Wilbraham at a fork go left and follow Route 2A to Route 2 and thence to New Haven...
...crying without the gates, must be taken into consideration; and since this is the case, it is almost a foregone conclusion that the palm will eventually be awarded to that Messiah who first awoke a slumbering world, through his pictures, to the criminal impropriety of eating olives with a fork...
...Davis then set out on another speaking tour in West Virginia. He spoke at Charleston, Huntington, White Sulphur Springs, Hinton, Thurmond, Ronceverte, Anderson, Meadowcreek, Quinnimont, Fayettesville, Bluefield†, Fort Gay, Crumm, Williamstown, Welch, North Fork. Some remarks...
...result if Mr. Meade were to procure the daily attendance, as he could for a trifling sum, of some local queen of the screen--always properly escorted--temporarily out of loose change. Consider the immediate change of atmosphere, the hushed and restrained conversation, the almost perfect technique of knife, fork, and spoon which would inevitably ensue. Consider the staggering spectacle of three hundred feeding students rising simultaneously to their feet upon the appearance of the lady of the day. Consider--but no. Why speculate on the impossible? Those grimaced Puritans who stare down from the walls would never tolerate such...
...which consist of documents. The most interesting are: death mask from the matrix moulded by Dr. Antomarchi, Napoleon's doctor ; a letter from Antomarchi to Vignali; the last cup ever used by the ex-French Emperor, a silver goblet inscribed with the Imperial arms; a silver knife, fork and spoon also engraved with the Imperial arms; a shirt, handkerchiefs, pair of white breeches, white pique waistcoats; Church vestments from the Longwood Chapel, some marked with the Imperial cypher; last, the most gruesome relic, a mummified tendon taken from the ex-Emperor's body during the postmortem...