Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admit that Alf Landon was born of humble but of honest parentage. He was not born of an illustrious family whose name is known. He was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth and educated by private tutors and when he goes fishing, being so plain and simple, he gets a cane pole and a can of worms instead of taking a trip on a million dollar yacht of a social highlight...
...would not like to say anything here that would hurt your feelings, but I doubt if you have any feelings to hurt. . . . Some of you Congressmen who are opposing this bill were born with a gold spoon in your mouth, and you are still feeding out of it. . . . Some of you others, before you came here to Congress, were as poor as church mice, and perhaps would have been in the soup line by this time except you grabbed hold of the public teat and have been milking $10,000 a year out of the taxpayers. You would really...
Still expansive, II Duce plumped himself down at the head of a table between two women reporters, one from France, one from Germany, unbuttoned the top of his tunic, banged on the table with a spoon, shouted for food. He lolled on the table, leaning his head on his fist, twisting his head back and forth toward each of his guests. A messenger rushed in importantly, pushed an official message under II Duce's nose. II Duce glanced over it with a sleepy look, waved the messenger away. Eventually a mountain of spaghetti appeared. News to the foreign Press...
...cerebral 15th Century meant much the same thing, but they might say 'Little by little the cat eateth up the bacon thickle.' or 'Feather by feather the goose is plucked'. . . ." Proverbs as a literary fashion died out with the 17th Century, but still remain the spoon-fed wisdom of the unsophisticated, the crutch for halting orators, the handy rubber stamp of hack-writers cramped for time...
...fierce resentment at the low estate of poets in contemporary U. S. society. The 38 poems in Invisible Landscapes, ranging from patriotic pieces like Give Us Back Our Country, to the obscure, arid, rambling speculations of Hymn to the Earth, are far below the level of Spoon River...