Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while, petered out just before World War I, and shifted then suddenly and violently to short, dresses, simpler dinner-parties, and fewer chaperons. During the twenties, manners became big business for the Posts and Dixes, and America's attention shifted from the age-old knife-fork-spoon controversy to the compatibility of good breeding and petting...
...touch & go. Silver-spoon-fed William Force Dick, half-brother of John Jacob Astor, was out $200-odd. The way the sheriff told it, handsome Sportsman Dick picked up the wrong hitchhikers-three young men who produced a gun, made him drive them all the way from Long Island to Manhattan, took his money and let him go in darkest Harlem...
...such a nice scene: it deserved to be engraved on a World's Fair souvenir spoon. Dr. Oscar Ivanissevich, the new Argentine ambassador to the U.S., was presenting his credentials to President Harry Truman. Dr. Ivanissevich was smiling and the President was smiling, and they were both saying what fine countries the other represented. It was hard to remember that only a few months ago the State Department was spreading the idea that Argentina's President Juan Peron was nothing but a fascist jerk...
Married. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., 48, silver-spoon socialite turned tinsel journalist, roaming New York Post columnist ("Vagabonding with Vanderbilt"), son of high society's dowager queen; and Maria Feliza Pablos, 29, grandniece of Mexico's onetime Dictator-President Porfirio Diaz; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Reno...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Poet Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Yale Professor (of Greek) Eugene O'Neill Jr. and New Republic Editor Malcolm Cowley debate H. L. Mencken's American Language...