Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Madeline Masters Stone, 55, sculptor, poet; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Daughter of the late Judge Hardin Wallace Masters who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in the Springfield law firm of Lincoln & Herndon, she was a sister of Poet Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology). She studied sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle and Gutzon Borglum, had lately done a bust of Lincoln as a youth for the Illinois...
...finalists were both nervous as they started out in the morning. On the first hole Somerville half-topped his first drive, faded a spoon. Goodman topped his second shot. Somerville topped his drive on the second tee. Steadying down, they were all square at the turn, but at the end of the first round Somerville had the edge 1 up. He increased his lead to 2 up in the first two holes of the afternoon, then went ragged. On the 24th Somerville chipped poorly, took two futile putts, finally conceded a 7 to Goodman's cool if not brilliant...
...Loon's breezy mnemonic method of imparting knowledge he explains earthquakes by a pile of books, what is happening to the earth's surface by half-a-dozen clean handkerchiefs, the central Spanish plateau with a soup plate, two saucers and a spoon. The inner workings of the Gulf Stream, the puzzle of which is latitude and which is longitude, are other mysteries brightly revealed...
...Washington are generally arranged as vacation trips. A ten-day wild life survey by three Senators (Nevada's Pittman, Connecticut's Walcott, Missouri's Hawes) with their salaried assistants cost $1,983,67. Among the itemized expenses were: motorboat hire, $60; mineral water, $31; Minnesota fishing licenses, $22; one spoon hook, $1.25; three sinkers, 15¢; can of minnows, 75?...
...nine months babe & chimpanzee were inseparable. They quarreled occasionally, but not often. Together they learned to wear shoes, eat with a spoon, drink from a glass, use a rake & hoe, untie a slipknot. When the chimpanzee was scolded it cried like a baby. Soon both learned to understand a few words. At first the chimpanzee understood better than the baby. When Dr. Kellogg left the room the chimpanzee remembered for 30 minutes which door he used; the child forgot after five minutes. When Dr. Kellogg called, the chimpanzee was the first to answer...