Word: spooning
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...months she was three or four years of age. Her enunciation became less distinct, she was careless with her spoon, spilling food, and had to be assisted with her feeding, she would prattle at times and occasionally she soiled herself. She had ceased to read and would have crawled around on the floor had the nurse so permitted...
...some thirty years before. The patient would take a towel or any cloth, roll it up and hug it to her as if it were a rag doll. She now required liquid nourishment because she would not chew, and soon she had to be fed liquids with a spoon, taking them with a sucking movement. She also would suck the corner of her gown or sheet. She began to soil herself regularly and had to be changed without giving any assistance, the nurse using large cloths in the manner of diapers. She would eat, sleep, make peculiar noises...
...with the idea in our head that all is over for economic royalism when such palaver is spoon-fed to the people by their lawful leader, we set out to week-end in New York, and take one last fling before burying ourself for life in Widener. And we made it a royalistic week...
...short, while the Student Union of Harvard deserves every credit for its work in improving conditions in Cambridge, it must remember that those who sup with the devil must use a long spoon...
...GOLDEN FLEECE OF CALIFORNIA-Edgar Lee Masters-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Short, stout narrative poem in which short, stout Poet Masters (Spoon River Anthology) compares the adventures of some Forty-niners to the quest of the Argonauts...