Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that an editor's duty was to run everything his staff wrote and everything he bought from a syndicate. Editor Leech may have been wrong, but he had a right to be: in an era of canned journalism, he at least had the privilege of choosing what to spoon out of the cans...
...anything like escape art. Instead of landscapes, birds, or flowers, most of them daub away at private horrors. Samples: a half-human fetus turning away in fright from a street, a huge fist clutching eight cadavers, skeletons, three starved men craning their necks to catch driblets from a single spoon. One lifer, condemned for the murder of his wife and children, had dreamed up a lovely woman trailing blood across his cell floor...
...Pauline, who then charged out in a man's size 44 trunks (she takes a woman's size 12), a sweater dyed a "nauseating orange," only one shoe, and a raincap flopping on her red hair. Her racket was warped to about the shape of a spoon. The slapstick tennis lesson began...
...years ago, Jimmy was a thin, good-looking kid who had been playing the cornet ever since he could remember. He and the gang at Austin High spent their time practicing in vacant houses, playing for P.T.A.-sponsored dances and listening to an old jukebox in the Straw and Spoon, a Coke joint across the street from Austin High. When they weren't practicing themselves, they were listening to the big-timers-to King Oliver, the great New Orleans Negro trumpeter, or Beiderbecke and the Wolverines. Other Chicago kids began sitting in with the Austin High gang...
...famous "student apathy to the field of Romance languages and literature, was definitely and positively stated by Chairman William Berrien, who pointed to the "lack of interest on the part of the students themselves. The apathy of many students, and their unwillingness to work toward getting beyond the spoon fed stage of education is a discouraging aspect of the problem...