Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knife, fork and spoon...
...Soames Forsyte's life is complete, and his daughter Fleur, the only descendant that bred true to Forsyte pride and cynical acquisitiveness, has worried her fate to tragic anticlimax. In The White Monkey fate (and Soames) wrenched her from the love of her cousin Jon; in The Silver Spoon fate (and Soames) taught her to snatch what she wanted; in Swan Song again fate (but not Soames) brings her Jon that she might snatch him only to lose him forever. For of the Two Forsyte Interludes one has told charmingly of Jon's new love, and the other...
Inspector Collins (noting that there is only one spoon): "Irene'll spoon with me, won't you, Irene...
...distance between Europe and America is just as great and effectual as it was when Edgar Lee Masters wrote of the Spoon River artist at Rome, with his work that looked now like Apollo, now like Lincoln. What has long gone without attention across the water still creates a tumult here. Chiselled marble brings a self-conscious blush to the cheeks of the New World, when it turns from its machines to play the esthete. And, after all why need it be ashamed of its lack of artistic sophistication: No European culture was budding let alone flowering, in as short...
...Reading Period more conducive to to intellectual independence on the part of the students, and a more definite departure from the prevalent spoon-feeding methods in American education might be devised. Of the possibilities which are open I mention two. First, a student might, by arrangement with his department, or tutor, or both, investigate into a field which interests him and which the pressure of course work does not allow him to pursue in the regular session. Second, as has been suggested in several courses, students might read in some special topic connected with the subject of a course. Louis...