Word: spooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn. For HICOG headquarters, there is a seven-section concrete and glass structure with a 1,500-seat cafeteria and a 100,000-volume library. Four miles away stands a cluster of new two-story apartment houses, 458 apartments in all, each furnished down to the last curtain, dessert spoon and teacup. They range from tasteful bedroom, living room, kitchen combinations for bachelors to four-bedroom duplexes, and offer three kinds of decor: Greenwich Village modern, heavy German, or imitation French classical. Rent: free...
School days brought spoon-fed indoctrination. Sample: at the end of each drawing class, the teacher would draw "a big, five-pointed star on the blackboard, which we had to copy . . . This was called 'the bringing of the revolutionary element into the subject...
Lowndes has conducted this benevolent patriarchalism from his residence at 20 Holyoke Street. Members of the Class of '55, bringing in their General Education themes, were awed by the Professor's wide knowledge of Oriental subjects, his impromptu concern over their respective futures, and his hospitality in trying to spoon them orange juice...
That was 16 years ago. Ever since, young Robert Linsig of Marlboro, N.Y. has lived by grace of his rubber tube. Like other children, he learned to chew his own food, but instead of being able to swallow, he had to spoon it into the tube. Robert never let it get him down. He grew up healthy and active, went to school, scrapped with the other kids, and learned to play the bell-lyra in the Marlboro Central High School band...
...class distinctions and almost exultant snobbery, it chronicles the brief, foredoomed friendship that springs up between little Alexandra Carmichael, whose mother is a marchioness, and little Elspeth McNairn, whose widowed mother makes the marchioness' hats. Mrs. McNairn herself is courted by a workingman who drinks tea with his spoon in his cup; but though his spoon is in the wrong place, his heart is in the right...