Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unworthy of him; and though he realizes the utter "waste of the ointment," he still is carried on-the helpless victim of a mirage-by fleeting glimpses of the woman that she might be. The book is profoundly analytical, studied with something of the grim irony that pervades the Spoon River Anthology. Its philosophy shifts at times from an almost Rabelaisian turn to Oriental mysticism, and back again...
...COLLECTOR'S WHATNOT-Van Loot, Kilgallen and Elphinstone - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). If you have ever bickered with an antique dealer for a genuine rat-tail spoon or a Jacobean chair that was made in Newark, you will enjoy this hilarious take-off on antiquing and antiquers. The Collector's Whatnot does for the antique-mania what The Cruise of the Kawa did for the South-Sea-craze...
...know that you are being taken in by one of the greatest frauds of modern times? Do you realize that your education here is provided by the capitalistic industries; that you are learning nothing but their spoon-fed propaganda; that your minds are being bought and sold daily with no more compunction than when, in the days of ancient Rome, the bodies of the slave-women were sold upon the public market-place...
...sketch in the first chapter. The rest of the book is predictable. But on she goes, stabbing her victims with repeated thrusts of her vindictive hatpin. Not that it isn't a sympathetic picture. You feel sorry for Mr. Pinney, bristling and blustering, with his eawing laugh and his spoon cracking in the mustache cup and his pocket comb and his self-inflated pride and obtrusive optimism...
Sued for Divorce: Edgar Lee Masters, poet, the author of Spoon River Anthology, by Helen Jenkins Masters. They had previously separated, and had later resumed living together...