Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...torches and the Revolution" and was supposed to be the Dauphin. Weiler's grandson, in the days when Johnny was growing up, kept a commercial hotel in the town, where drummers sat and exchanged dirty stories. There are enough minor characters in The Farm to fill a dozen Spoon Rivers-people like Dr. Trefusis, whose grandiose Gothic house was one of the town's sights; Big Mary, an amiable, immensely efficient Negro cook, who refused to exchange her status of "accommodator" for steady employment; Johnny's Uncle Robert, a champion bicycle racer who was killed...
Julia Newberry was born with a good-sized silver spoon in her good-sized mouth. When her father died he left his wife and two daughters so well off that they could easily afford $60,000 to make over their town house into what everyone said was "the handsomest house in Chicago." The hall was 70 ft. long, and Julia had her own "studio." with a private staircase. They could also afford to leave it for summers in Richfield Springs, N. Y., visits to Utica, Manhattan, St. Augustine, Fla., extended grand tours abroad. Their U. S. travels were of course...
...Professor William Lyon Phelps one night last week as he left Yale's Sprague Memorial Hall.* He had been listening to an "Old Timers' Concert" of the Yale Glee Club, reviving popular college songs of the century past. The Howard twins had rendered an 1867 overture, "Wooden Spoon Lancers." Tom Hewes, Class of 1910, had whistled "The Yellow Bird." Another gentleman had yodeled. Carl Lohmann, secretary of the University, had sung Kipling's "Fuzzy-Wuzzy." And the Glee Club had rousingly performed such numbers as "The Pope" ("He leads a jolly life, jolly life . . ."); "Church...
Knowledge ladled out in spoon-fed doses, like the brimstone and treacle of Dotheboys Hall, is a thing of the past, but in certain history and sociology the evil influence of the ancient Trivium and Quadrivium remains. These atavistic tendencies are manifest, not in any narrowness or compulsion in the inculcation of ideas, but in the insulation from more than one view of the subjects studied, shown in the assignments of seventy-three pages in one book, one-hundred-and-ninety-nine in another, consecutively covering historical periods, perhaps of Tudor England, or of ante-bellum America. It is obvious...
There was no bench, there was no moon, There were no birds nor flowers. They did not kiss, they did not spoon- Accountant Petrov and the daughter...