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...jail at Blackpool, England, Frank Sheridan ate his breakfast, then ate his spoon. Still hungry, he tore the chain and staple from his cell door and ate them too. Satisfied, Prisoner Sheridan lay down, went to sleep...
...Hartley complied. Governor Hartley said: "One of America's alarming problems is the mounting cost of public education. . . . The thought of adding to the unbearable burden by the addition of talking movies ... is inconceivable. . . . Innovations already introduced have undermined the quality of education . . . amply proved the policy of spoon feeding...
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...Manhattan, Abraham Levitt, jeweler, felt nauseated, tried to make himself vomit by tickling his uvula with a spoon. The spoon caught in his gullet. Bellowing, Jeweler Levitt rushed out for help. A policeman tried to extricate the spoon. Jeweler Levitt hastened to Beekman St. Hospital. While waiting for a surgeon, he signaled for a drink of water, drank, gagged, gasped. Out popped the spoon...
...Rutledge-Lincoln romance, Poet Masters wrote in his Spoon River Anthology (1915) the epitaph subsequently carved on Anne Rutledge's tombstone...