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...year micro-record is a reminder that Americans were offered and bought some odd artifacts-crocodile sofas, mourning handkerchiefs, dog-powered butter churns, solid gold toothpicks with ear-spoon attached, mustache cups ("appropriate gift for the man of elegance") and bosom boards (wooden stiffeners used to shape men's shirts for ironing). In 1905, Sears was offering the "Princess Bust Developer," a bell-shaped cup attached firmly to a handle, and was telling women that IF NATURE HAS NOT FAVORED YOU, the developer would...
...only for the reissue of Company K, which belongs in trench literature with Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That, Richard Aldington's Death of a Hero and John Dos Passes' Three Soldiers. When it was published (1933), one critic called it a sort of Spoon River Anthology of the war. The form was the same, in the sense that each character spoke with his own voice to compose a harsh recitative for a community. But March's community was made up of the doomed dogfaces of Soissons and Belleau Wood, rather than the villagers...
...employers have simply thrown up their hands-and ducked out of the way of the stampede. But others have set their minds to licking the problem of lost man-hours. In the process they have not only taken the bitterness out of the coffee break, but have helped to spoon up a profitable new business: coffee catering, to bring the coffee in to employees. Says a Kaiser Aluminum executive in Oakland, Calif.: "Our department alone is saving $110 a month on coffeetime. I drink the coffee at my desk while I open the mail, save half an hour-and enjoy...
...average American collegian is "spoon-fed" in more ways than one, said Commager. Not only do we feed them "in the form of lectures and textbooks and outlines" but also "we provide our students with their sports and games, wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Egypt's Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser last week defended his purchase of arms from the Communists, denied that he intends to start a war with Israel, and behaved like a man convinced that his spoon is long enough to sup with the devil...