Word: spoonerism
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...prisoner released from detention last week was U.S. Journalist Mary Helen Spooner, who spent six days in jail after being charged with defaming the new regime. She was freed and expelled to Peru, after the intervention of two British publications for which she writes...
...blue sky. At Oak Creek, a 16-ft. cultivator depicted on the John and Arthur Mahr barn stands amid a luminous crazy quilt of rolling hillsides. Past poster-bright stands of timber and grazing deer, a lumber train with trim red wheels chugs across the Lewis Furchtenicht barn in Spooner. The facade of Patrick Hennessey's barn in Dodgeville displays primary-hued portraits of archetypal Wisconsinites: a blue-faced farmer, a crimson-haired girl, a gray-and-white-faced iron miner, a green-visaged businessman chomping a blue cigar...
UMass attackman Jeff Spooner, who holds all of his school's career scoring records, notched his fourth goal of the afternoon to boost the Minuteman advantage, but Gordie Nelson answered for Harvard and then, on a man-up opportunity, Steve Martin racked up the first goal of his hat trick...
...goals by Norm Smith, Terry Keefe and Menna, before MacKenzie and Ward countered for the 17th-ranked Crimson. Then UMass put the game away by ripping of five straight markers and then, after Pedroni got the first of the day, shutting out the Crimson in the second quarter while Spooner and Smith were stretching the bulge...
...happens that Hirst, Spooner, Foster and Briggs are the names of renowned 19th and early 20th century cricket players. Whatever Pinter, an ardent cricket fan, may have intended by that, No Man 's Land is a hilarious mine field of gamesmanship. The English relish putting each other down socially, intellectually and psychologically, and some of them are formidably adept at it. Pinter does it to perfection...