Word: spooned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real undoing of the linksters, however, was the Yale greens, which were akin to thread-bare Gobelin tapestries. While dining at D'Andrea's restaurant after the debacle, Fitzgibbons rapped his fist down in the midst of practicing wedge shots with his spoon on a hot fudge sundae and said: "It was like hitting onto this table--absolute concrete." After leaving D'Andrea's, Paxton put a penny in the scale in the lobby and got his fortune. The scale told the tale: "Change quickly if you are headed up the wrong alley (or fairway...
Newmark added, "This is a step back leading to the old English ideal of spoon feeding students...
Once blessed by luck in almost every business enterprise, the Guggenheims later lost their magical touch. The family story was like the Rothschilds' in reverse: a third-generation Guggenheim, M. Robert, distinguished himself as Ambassador to Portugal by flipping a spoon down a guest's cleavage at a state dinner, then attempting to fish it out. Lisbon declared him persona non grata. Many lost all purpose, several died young, and a disproportionate number committed suicide. Simon's son George, for instance, bought a big-game rifle at Abercrombie & Fitch, checked into a hotel, and shot himself...
Petey Greene, ex-convict who is now host of a Washington TV talk show, on being invited to a White House dinner for Yugoslav President Tito: "Truly, it was very nice. I even stole a spoon...
Edsel Ford II, 29, an heir to the automobile fortune, on his new job as assistant managing director of Ford Australia: "There is no silver spoon in Ford. I think that's lucky. They treat me like any other...