Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death, "Red" Moran was brought from the Sing Sing death house last week for a new trial. They took him to a jail wherein one of his enemies, William Reid, had been locked up for a minor offense. Hearing that "Red" Moran was coming, William Reid quietly took a spoon and ground its handle until it was as sharp and keen as a knife...
...hand the President held a wooden spoon; in the other a plate of ice cream. He and Mrs. Coolidge were giving their annual garden party for disabled veterans; received nearly 1,000 of them on the South Lawn of the White House grounds. Secretary of State and Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, et al, attended...
...Jolson when he croons the need of the old plantation, mammy, and a ticket to Mobile. American women don't need any sentimentalizing. From the late years of the last century they have had much too much of that. And few of the intelligent ones, the Bypatias of Spoon River and Lynn and Beacon Bill, would care for the sugared accents of the dying bowman. Arthur is passing--the buck...
...this device, a farmer must first attach a plow to his tractor and cut a furrow around the outer rim of his field, making the corners rounded instead of square. Then he fastens Mr. Zybach's invention to the steering wheel of the tractor, putting the spoon-end in the furrow. He starts the tractor, climbs out. The tractor, guided along the furrow by Mr. Zybach's invention, continues to make shorter and shorter trips around the field, until it comes to a stop in the middle...
...BRIEN-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2). Spoon River idyll...