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...Silver Spoon. He was a complex child of simple, ambitious parents. "Phoebe Apperson Hearst," wrote Hearstling Winifred Black Bonfils in an official biography, "was born [1842] in an old-fashioned American home, on an old-fashioned American farm in the old-fashioned American State of Missouri. She died in a magnificent Spanish hacienda in California, surrounded with every exotic luxury that the brain of man could conceive, or the heart of woman desire." She married a rough & rowdy Missouri Argonaut named George Hearst, who lost two fortunes, but won three in gold & silver. In San Francisco, on April...
Born: Nov. 15, 1891, in New York; silver-spoon son of Railroad Empire Builder E. H. Harriman who controlled 60,000 miles of the nation's rails, including the Union Pacific...
...ended up in three. The potato spewed over into the central milk-glass division, and the gravy required a skilled juggling act to keep it from flowing over the side. Also there was insufficient height in the ridges to aid in getting the last mouthfuls of applesauce on the spoon (the same will certainly hold true for peas, stewed tomatoes...
...Silver Spoon...
Each class gives a set of Radcliffe china to its first member to be married following graduation, and the first girl born to a member of each class gets a silver spoon and becomes the class mascot. Increasingly in recent months, the girls are marrying before they graduate, probably because of the threat of war. Usually they marry during the Christmas holidays and return to college. After graduation, about 40 per cent get jobs, 29 per cent do graduate work...