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Word: spoonful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Jan. 25, you state that the Crown Prince Asfaou Ouossan, 15, in England, speaks no English, attacked bacon & eggs with a spoon, etc. Wrong again. Your information "spells" French-like. The Prince's name is "Asfa Wassan" in English. He is 16, speaks English (likely better than any English prince speaks Amharic). American quite fluently, French better, interested in many things other than bicycles, and is quite familiar with the use of knife & fork. ERNEST WORK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...jewelry and clothes, including 21 pairs of shoes. The Prince collected bicycle catalogs, conferred lengthily in his suite with cycle salesmen on pneumatic tires and coaster-hubs, developed a fondness for English porridge, consuming three servings of the latter at breakfast before bacon & eggs which he attacked with a spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...jail at Blackpool, England, Frank Sheridan ate his breakfast, then ate his spoon. Still hungry, he tore the chain and staple from his cell door and ate them too. Satisfied, Prisoner Sheridan lay down, went to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...Hartley complied. Governor Hartley said: "One of America's alarming problems is the mounting cost of public education. . . . The thought of adding to the unbearable burden by the addition of talking movies ... is inconceivable. . . . Innovations already introduced have undermined the quality of education . . . amply proved the policy of spoon feeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teaching Films | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Abraham Levitt, jeweler, felt nauseated, tried to make himself vomit by tickling his uvula with a spoon. The spoon caught in his gullet. Bellowing, Jeweler Levitt rushed out for help. A policeman tried to extricate the spoon. Jeweler Levitt hastened to Beekman St. Hospital. While waiting for a surgeon, he signaled for a drink of water, drank, gagged, gasped. Out popped the spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Matches | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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