Word: spoonful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...waste an entire column of newsprint in an attempt to tear down the character of the man behind the movement? Surely it is no criticism of Howard Scott that he failed to be born with a gold spoon in his mouth. Jesus Christ began His career as a carpenter...
...ordered a cup of coffee after a six-day fast and sent a note to friends at another table, "Sorry to have disturbed you but I have just landed. Michael R." Talking fast in his baa-baa Oxford accent, with the manner of a man born with a gold spoon in his cheek, he began a new chapter of the famed Gerguson-Romanoff legend...
GALSWORTHY (John) Silver Spoon. Mint...
Some events of the five-year period Author Sullivan has raked together: sinking of the Titanic, the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight, forced dissolution of the Standard Oil trust, electrocution of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for instigating the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, Halley's Comet, Ford jokes. Suffragettes Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Evangelist Billy Sunday, the two-step, grizzly bear, bunny hug. Actress Lillian Russell, erection of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel, nude "September Morn." dawn of psychoanalysis...
...Guardian reported: "The most striking exhibit, from the hiker's point of view, is an 'ultra-lightweight week-end kit,' comprising rucksack, sleeping-bag, tent, a four-peg coat-hanger, a petrol-stove, frypan, water-bucket, a plate, cup, receptacles for food and drink, knife, spoon and fork, and electric torch, a pair of shoes, a tent pole, swimming suit, complete change of clothes, towels, soap, facecloth, shaving tackle, and toothbrush, the whole weighing slightly over ten and a half pounds...