Word: spoon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peeled off The Big Bankroll, Leo Katcher's popular biography of Under-worldling Arnold Rothstein (1882-1928). Jo Swerling's script tells the sordid story of a boy who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth and uses it to sup with the Devil. At ten. Arnie is running his own crime syndicate on Manhattan's Lower East Side. At 20, he is running a bucket shop. Soon he sets up a gambling house, and moves in on the horse parlors. But after fingering a little punk (Rooney) who has served him loyally...
Once these major items are secured, the camper must stock up on food (Armour & Co. now markets a variety of lightweight, dehydrated foods that require no refrigeration) and cooking utensils. A nested set of aluminum skillets, bowls, cups, etc., sells for about $8, and a knife-fork-spoon combination that clips together costs 70?. A length of nylon line is handy for lashing bedrolls and tents. Flashlights and spare batteries should be packed, as well as a small kerosene lamp, books, matches in a waterproof case, first-aid kit, candle, knife, hatchet, bucket, small trench shovel, mosquito repellent, aluminum foil...
...million have been confirmed, and fewer than 3,000,000 are registered on parish rolls. If these facts might seem to argue that the church should win back its flock, the newest Archbishop of Canterbury, on his enthronement last week, made no sign that he will attempt to spoon-feed religion or pretend that Christianity is another kind of tranquilizer. Arthur Michael Ramsey, a man with a single-minded devotion to God,* made clear that it is up to the people to come back to the church...
...found John Millington Synge dawdling in the cafes of Paris and packed him off to the Aran Islands, conceivably the most significant trip in modern dramatic literature, for out of it came Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World. Again, if Yeats had not spoon-fed Dublin's infant Abbey Theater with the heady ethnic pabulum of Cathleen ni Houlihan, there would have been neither stage nor actors for the memorable tragi-comedies of Sean O'Casey. And above all, there was the matchless mature poetry of Yeats himself, not popular balladry...
...Caracas Resolution requirement of prior consultation. But Castro's acts, only a few of which are enumerated above, pose the open threat of the establishment in this hemisphere..." In other words, no matter how clearly threatened Cuba may have been (and after all, they were invaded after the press spoon-fed the American public an image of Castro-the-maniac who was stirring up fears of an imminent invasion from the North simply as a means of retaining popularity) Castro had no right to import Soviet arms. Yet Krock maintains that any threat, whether clear, present, potential, or imaginary, grants...