Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeat the success of his Recessional, written for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Last week 69-year-old Mr. Kipling released his poem free of copyright to anyone who would print it in full.* Silent was England's Poet Laureate, shy John Masefield. In Manhattan bold Spoon River Anthologist Edgar Lee Masters commented with a shrug: "The King and the Sea is nothing but verse-almost prose in fact. It can't be compared with Recessional. That is a cannibal hymn and I've always despised the damned thing, but it has a kind of swing...
Both sturdy sons of thrifty peasant sires, M. Laval and Mussolini find themselves opposed in blood and bone to the methods of one born with the gold spoon of Hyde Park in his mouth. Their purposes are to keep their monies firm on gold and to make cheaper the necessities of life. In Italy these many years, Il Duce has been hoeing this hard row, and last week Premier Laval joined him. Of the 28 new French emergency decrees, eight seek to make necessities of life easier to buy, and the other 20 effect economies and new taxes designed...
...report that next year's subscriptions had exceeded his greatest expectations. "That's grand," said Herbert Witherspoon and crumpled suddenly to the floor, the statement of his plans clutched tightly in his hand. Hour later a hearse drove up to the shabby stage entrance, carried Herbert Wither-spoon away-dead from an attack of coronary thrombosis...
Standing on the fifth fairway of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Course, playing his last round in the Augusta Masters' Tournament, Golfer Gene Sarazen last week made the greatest shot of his career. Hit with a spoon, from a difficult downhill lie, his ball flew smoothly to a green 220 yd. away. It rolled slowly toward the hole. It dropped...
...Waterloo, not on St. Helena. But the story of Napoleon's slow fattening for death, anti-climactic though it seems to his career, is a tragi-comedy in itself. Author "Wilson Wright" (William Reitzel) has made the most of it, re-stirring the teacup-tempest with an impartial spoon. From contemporary, controversial accounts of Napoleon's dying days he has pieced together a convincingly human episode, a comedy that ends inevitably in death...