Word: spooning
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Indeed, throughout the first half of this century, Negro performers generally reinforced the debased stereotype. Pigmeat Markham, the originator of "Here come de judge," was the vaudeville ideal of the irresponsible, chuckleheaded Negro. Mantan Moreland was so hopelessly inept that he practically had to be spoon-fed by his boss, Charlie Chan...
...often extremely cunning in avoiding detection. The drug usually comes in little glassine bags. It is a fine white, gray or brown powder, very bitter to the taste. The tools needed for an injection usually consist of a hypodermic syringe, often made from an eyedropper and a needle, a spoon or bottle cap (to dissolve the heroin), and cotton balls (to strain...
...Neurotics Anonymous members are expected to refer their problems to a greater power, preferably but not necessarily God. To an avowed atheist, one of Grover's lieutenants proposed in all seriousness that an ordinary spoon could serve as a divine surrogate. Grover himself has even suggested that nonbelievers acknowledge the law of gravity as a higher power...
...small white paper-thin wafer-is now supposed to be more breadlike, so that it can be broken and shared by priests and people in a more vivid re-enactment of the Last Supper. The wine may be drunk directly from the chalice, sipped from a spoon, taken by "induction" (dipping the bread in wine), or even sipped through silver straws...
...party adjourned to see the 'cutting down.' " In 1800, a boy of ten was sentenced to death for "secreting notes" at the Chelmsford post office because, the judge noted, his act suggested "art and contrivance." The following year, a youth of 13 was hanged for stealing a spoon. The hangmen were as popular as movie stars are today...