Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never could understand the line Oswald has taken. He was born with a gold spoon in his mouth-it cost a ?100 doctor fee to bring him into the world. He has lived on the fat of the land and never did a day's labor in his life. He had the best education and money was spent on him galore. If he and his wife want to go in for labor why don't they do a bit of work themselves or why doesn't Lady Cynthia sell her pearls for the Smethwick poor...
...warden had the box on his desk. He showed it with an ironic comment to his visitor. Once the box had contained Prince Albert tobacco; now its contents were more interesting. A little rubber sack. A hypodermic needle. A broken spoon. An envelope of morphin. . . . Drug peddlers, delivering narcotics to prisoners on the island, do not always drop their orders from the bridge. An ordinary postoffice envelope, embossed with the head of George Washington, has a hollow behind the raised stamp...
Married. Edgar Lee Masters, 57, author of Spoon River Anthology and more recently of prose; to Ellen F. Coyne, 27, of Kansas City, Mo.; in Manhattan. It was the groom's second marriage, his first wife, Helen Jenkins Masters, of Chicago, having divorced...
...conference with Britishers on smuggling prevention, sat in the dining salon of the liner La France, ate crêpes suzettes (French pancakes) with rum sauce. Novelist Edna Ferber (see p. 31) and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone spoofed him. He replied that "everything eaten with a fork or a spoon was quite all right...
...Clauson (attorney for the Crown) : "One has only to look into a man's pockets, and if there are profits there, that is enough for the tax gatherer. I do not say that if the pockets be full of stolen spoons one spoon should be taken as a tax on burglary. There is a valid distinction between profits and loot...