Word: spoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of drops of lemon juice. I think it would take a housewife longer to use this gadget than it would for her to do what our housewives do: slice a piece of lemon, drop it into a glass of tea, then squeeze a few drops out with a spoon. I don't think this appliance of yours is an improvement in any way. In fact, you can squeeze a lemon faster by hand. This kind of nonsense is an insult to our intelligence...
...always seems to be room for groups of seven-to-ten people, and though the service is slow (the better to encourage you to drink) the food is fine when it arrives. Obviously, the cooking is not of restaurant caliber, but the food is definitely a step above greasy spoon quality. And it is cheap...
Another large New York taxi fleet, Scull's Angels, is intent on decorating the passengers' interiors. The company will soon present patrons between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. with a free box containing orange juice, dry cereal, milk, a Styrofoam bowl and a plastic spoon, all of which could add to backseat squalor. Though Scull's fleet is owned by famed Art Collector Robert Scull, there are no plans to mellow the yellows' interiors...
Other sorts of trouble are coming to paradise, it appears. Those magical Scottish names, the cleek, and the spoon, the baffy and of course that old standby the mashie niblick, says Wodehouse, are about to become as rare-not to say mythological-as Scottish golfing champions themselves. It is rumored that golf is less "a thing of the spirit" than it once was. Given such commercial-calamitous times, golfers and nongolfers alike must swiftly turn for solace to The Oldest Member. Who better than Wodehouse can guard against creeping greed and gallopping solemnity, on the page or on the fairway...
...birthday of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. When his wife Pat gave the tart-tongued daughter of Theodore Roosevelt two jars of Iranian caviar, Nixon indiscreetly confided that it was a gift "from the Shah to Pat and from Pat to you." Advised by the President to "eat it with a spoon," the irrepressible Mrs. Longworth replied: "I'll wallow in it"-an allusion to Nixon's celebrated comment: "Let others wallow in Watergate." Asked later about the party, Nixon's Watergate resentments surfaced in an attack on the press...