Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learns to drink, spoon and wench. His mind takes the shape of a pinchbeck, free-lunch conquistador's. He borrows a car, skids into a tight situation, scurries from town like a rodent...
...still the curse of the "great horned spoon...
...measured stride of the golfer, this youth employed a furious, irregular lope. Suddenly, without a waggle, in a pause that hardly broke his stride, his club described an invisible arc; several seconds afterward, pushing its path through the lucent walls of summer air, the sound of his spoon-shot reached the two old men. The youth, running as hard as he could, disappeared behind the hill; reemerged, a short time after, upon another; played one of his polo-like strokes-was off again. The two dotards looked at each other. Without a word, but trembling slightly, they turned and began...
...hero of this exhibition is a shipping clerk who mixes up his adverbs and can get 300 yards from the tee. In return for curing his round employer's slice, he gains a guest card to the latter's country club. He drops a spoon shot on a lady's backbone and, while apologizing, falls in love. Advertised by his host as the heir to $80,000,000, he wins the lady. Her indignation is extensive when, in a hotel room, he reports his penury, a condition which renders her in his eyes and in her nightgown...
...night to which reporters would doubtless affix, in their matutinal commentaries, the adjective "gala." The Olympic Stadium, on which $1,000,000 had just been spent, was about to be opened by scuffles between Salvadore and Jessick, lightweights, and Brown and Grandetta, bantams. "Cold Ice Cream, a Spoon in Every Package," cried vendors; candy was offered, soda-pop-the crowd ignored these amenities the better to stare at the tuxedoed gentleman...