Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fretted keyboard over which are stretched perhaps four, perhaps as many as 24 gut strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which has a flat bottom joined to the sound board by separate ribs. In appearance it is more like the mongrel, wire-strung mandolin...
...Unless she is borne to the dinner [for James Ramsay MacDonald at the White House] triumphant on the shoulders of Mrs. Nick Longworth and seated in the center of the table as a centerpiece with a silver candelabra in both hands and fed her soup with a long handled spoon by the wife of the Secretary of State, Kansas won't be responsible for what her presidential electors do in 1932. Verbum...
Last week a select portion of the U. S. public was permitted to buy stock in Shenandoah Corp., a newborn investment trust which came into being with a silver spoon of $102,000,000 resources in its mouth. Eager, the public snapped up one million shares of common, one million shares of preferred, paying up to 42 for common offered at 17½ and up to 60 for preferred offered at 50. By midafternoon of the first day's sale there was no Shenandoah stock available...
...Looking paunchy, with glints of grey in his hair, Jones wore a white sweater, grey knickers, grey socks, black & white shoes. . . . His huge bag is made of leather. Attached to it was a blue plaid umbrella. The bag contained three woods (driver, spoon, brassie) and nine rusty irons. A tenth iron, shiny and new, was the mashie-niblick with which he pitched his 293rd stroke...
Once when Gilbert Stroud, aged 7, was fidgeting with a spoon and fork at table, his stepmother, nerve-wracked from maternity trouble, slapped him with the carving-knife. That, says Author Mannin, was the genesis of 1) a scar on his wrist, 2) his animosity towards women. Aged 10, when his friend's mother embraced him he wriggled out of it. Aged 20, off at the War, when the Stroud blood in him got hot for women, his mind remained cold as cash. Aged 25, he discovered that he wanted a fortune and a blonde wife, a maker...