Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York. Samuel Finkler, 25, took his girl friend Sarah Berkowitz into Bronx Park at night to spoon. Hearing the big bough under which they were reclining crack she sprang away, saw Samuel Finkler crushed and killed...
...after thawing out the water spigot on cold mornings by silting on it, turned it on, drank. A Maltese cat, with a harelip, whistled "Yankee Doodle." A cold cow gave ice cream. Jim. Pete and Dick, trout, were fed New-Year's dinner with a silver spoon. Copycat Mortison. Early this year it seemed Winsted's animals might be spreading when from Waterbury, Conn, were reported some chicks which had hatched out in fur instead of feathers. Investigation proved this to be the work of a copycat, however, not a real migration of fabulous fauna. One Louis Mortison...
...Silver Spoon. In Germany's drowsy Munich last week Carol stepped off the Paris express, taxied to the flying field. He was still officially "M. Carol Caraiman," for he renounced even his family name of Hohenzollern when he abdicated as Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. n, 1926). His father King Ferdinand was then alive. His mother Queen Marie had yet to make her U. S. tour. Not until venerable King Ferdinand died 17 months later was Carol's bonny five-year-old son proclaimed King Mihai (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927). As he waited at the bleak Munich airdrome last week Carol...
...Cheap quick lunch emporium, usually greasy and smelly; frequently called a "greasy spoon...
Although the school has never had a department of journalism, in that direction is it best represented by its alumni. Knox was the " Siwash" of George Hamlin Fitch. Famed among other writing Knox alumni are: Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Don Marquis (The Old Soak), Eugene Field (newspaper colyumist, Poems of Childhood). Her two alumni presidents are journalists?President Britt and Dr. John Huston Finley (president 1892-99), now " editor emeritus" of the New York Times. Oldest living graduate (1859) is Ellen Browning Scripps, sister of Edward Wyllis Scripps and a prime mover in the early days of Scripps...