Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outlining of his plan the Harvard President mentioned those who were able to enter a University through "accidents of birth." Members of the silver spoon class upon graduation enter into American business and public life and in most cases have little need for much of the formal training they now receive. Higher education has not yet been directed at them, but they pay the bills and help support the college...
...cream, and potatoes were easy, but the meat courses always afforded serious difficulties. By extreme perseverance, however, even they were finally mastered. And yesterday the acme of perfection was reached when one Leonard P. Eliel '36 from J entry succeeded in consuming his soup by means of a spoon braced between his two chop-sticks. This feat excited envy throughout the dining hall, and the demand for chop-sticks became acute. A committee approached Mrs. Smith, the headwaitress, and guaranteed to donate the necessary funds, if chopsticks might be supplied in place of silver for all who wished them...
...MASTER MURDERER - Carolyn Wells-Lippincott ($2). Fleming Stone pins the simultaneous slaughter of the four rich Everetts on the lad whose soup spoon wavered...
Those who judge professors by their eloquence or skill in "spoon-feeding" ought seduously to avoid Professor Abbott's lectures. I hope there are some others who believe that the true office of a teacher is to suggest and guide rather than to stuff or entertain. (Name Withheld by Request...
...Florida land boom of 1926 he organized the "American-British improvement Corp.," planned to build a city called "Floranada" on 3,600 Florida acres. Collapse of the boom wiped out his own fortune and millions loaned by his family. "I discovered that a diamond-encrusted golden spoon can become an instrument of torture-when it stirs the bitter tea of failure...