Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dragon-class sloop Bluebottle. But they had a fine time anyway. At his home, a converted waterfront warehouse, Uffa presided over the nightly after-dinner festivities that lasted until dawn. At a dinner for the Imperial Poona Yacht Club, he donned a pith helmet and led his cronies in spoon-hammering sea chanties. Said one Cowes pubkeeper: "There's pirates 'round Cowes at regatta time, and Uffa's the worst of the lot." Lusty Uffa Fox certainly has a touch of Kidd and Blackbeard about him-at least in the eyes of landlubbers, whom he has shocked...
...hushed whispers and the shaking of heads went on at a faster pace last week when newspapers throughout the country reported President Pusey's "Attack on business" speech at Brown University. To may, he seemed to be biting the hand that holds the spoon, for business contributions have become the lifeblood of private education. The philanthropist-million-aires who once endowed colleges belong to a bygone age; state aid, with its danger of state control, is unacceptable. Contributions from industry seem to be the only answer to soaring educational costs. But fears that Mr. Pusey was repudiating this aid arise...
Bags Packed. Hollywood is now eager to adopt Actress Kelly, white gloves and all, and is trying hard, with the air of an ill-at-ease lumberjack worrying whether he is using the right spoon. But Grace shows no interest in the Hollywood way of life, or even in having the customary swimming pool ("I don't swim that much"). Thus far, she has lived with a sister or a girl friend in a furnished, two-room North Hollywood apartment, acting as" if she considered herself on location, with her bags packed ready to go back to New York...
...overcrowded firetrap within sight of the Statehouse, they found the men's infirmary as bad as any storied bedlam. The 55 patients were nearly all incontinent, and spent day and night lying naked on their beds in their own excrement. "Meals" consisted of cold slop, eaten with a spoon. None ever left the "infirmary" except to go to the morgue...
...Bags & Spoons. Eric Vansittart Bowater, says one of his friends, is a "self-made man who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth." Though he comes from a titled family, Sir Eric earned his knighthood for World War II service in the Air Ministry. The family has been in the paper business since 1881, but it was not until Eric, a wounded veteran, joined the firm in 1921 that the company began to expand fast. Sir Eric decided that the firm, then only a trading company with assets of $1,500.000, ought to get into manufacturing. Unable...