Word: spoonerism
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Died. William Archibald Spooner, 86, oldtime classics scholar at Oxford University, onetime honorable canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, editor of a once-famed text, The Histories of Tacitus, originator of "Spoonerisms"; at New College, Oxford. Typical "Spoonerisms...
...Benn-Cooke and T. P. Fry are registered in the Law School, W. P. Barrett and W. G. Humphrey are studying in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, H. I. Coombs and E. T. C. Spooner are in the Medical School, and David Graham is enrolled in the Graduate School of Business Administration...
Just before daylight two Hammond policemen came upon the bloody contents of Spooner's Nook. The object in the bushes, the two objects in the ditched car, were dead men's bodies, ragged with bullet-holes, sticky...
Southward out of Chicago early one morning last week slipped three automobiles. They crossed the Illinois-Indiana line and parked at Spooner's Nook in the desolate outskirts of Hammond. Something heavy was flung into the brush. One of the cars was driven into a ditch. The other two cars drove away...
Chicago's police adopted the handiest explanation: the Moran gang had avenged the St. Valentine's Day massacre. The Spooner's Nook find brought the number of Chicago underworldlings who have met violent death this year to 20, an all-time high for the first five months of any year...