Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Autocrat Holmes presided over a family (he had two boys, one girl) who chattered like "a nest of wrens" (whoever was wittiest at table was awarded an extra spoon ful of marmalade). "Don't take it so hard, Wendell," said Uncle John Holmes when the doctor wrote whimsical articles about his son in the Atlantic Monthly. "You will get used to your father. I did, long...
Simiantics. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Lee van Belden complained in court that her husband looked like a big monkey when, in the nude, he tried to shoot her with a spoon...
...afternoon. They fished from a launch in Lake Huron, in the clear blue icy waters around Birch Island in Canada's famed Manitoulin district. First trip out the Old Fisherman took five smallmouth black bass, one medium-sized musky. His tackle: a light trout rod, a pearl spoon...
Sculpture Plus Chemistry. When he was a boy on a Kentucky farm, Dawn used to take a cold chisel, hammer and spoon over to the creek bank and chop faces in soft sandstone. Many years later, after time spent as a sailor, dishwasher and cowhand-always with a lump of sculptor's clay in his pocket - a Hollywood studio hired him to be an Indian brave...
...ever a magazine was not born with a silver spoon in its mouth, that magazine is TIME. In the whole U.S. in 1923 we could not find enough faith in the newsmagazine idea to scrape together even $100,000 working capital. The editor remembers the first office as "chaos-but not even very much of that." The editorial budget for the whole first year was only about half what our editors spend every week now. And even when TIME was three years old its continued existence was still so touch-and-go that one week late...