Word: spooners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Repossession. In Springfield, Mass., when James Smith told the court that he could not pay a $50 traffic fine, Judge Ralph S. Spooner suggested that he raise the money by selling...
...called after William A. Spooner, (1844-1930), onetime Warden of New College, Oxford, who is credited with scores of mixed-up quotations (mostly legendary), including the granddaddy of all Spoonerisms: "Mardon me, padam, but I think you are occupewing...
...KATHLEEN SPOONER...