Word: spooning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rich as James Walter Spalding, board chairman of A. G. Spalding & Bros., famed sporting goods concern.* First concerts never pay for themselves. All young musicians start out with patrons. But poor boys, even though patronized, succeed far better than rich ones in capturing popular imagination. Silver-spoon talent is regarded as unlikely. Albert Spalding's debut was received with a certain suspicion. Says he: "The audience seemed to expect me to come out in a baseball suit." The wise Spaldings lost little time in sizing up the situation. Father Spalding suggested that his son forego subsidized concerts, start barnstorming...
...Homage to a Hostess" represents an other oak plank (with every grain minutely painted) from which hang a red-feathered trolling spoon and a string of speckled birds' eggs. Pinned to the plank is a sheet of blue notepaper with this message, in English...
Contrastingly, Stokowski delivers himself more and more of public utterances. At a recent luncheon in Philadelphia he said: "Peace can only come through the individual evolution of man." At the Poor Richard Club (Philadelphia), where he was presented with a silver spoon and porringer for his infant daughter, Andrea Sadja, he said: "Symphonic music is only a very small part of what radio can do. It is equal to anything man ever has had for exchange of thought, of imagination, of beauty; for developing everything that makes life a wonderful thing. Perhaps never before has there been such a medium...
...York. Samuel Finkler, 25, took his girl friend Sarah Berkowitz into Bronx Park at night to spoon. Hearing the big bough under which they were reclining crack she sprang away, saw Samuel Finkler crushed and killed...
...after thawing out the water spigot on cold mornings by silting on it, turned it on, drank. A Maltese cat, with a harelip, whistled "Yankee Doodle." A cold cow gave ice cream. Jim. Pete and Dick, trout, were fed New-Year's dinner with a silver spoon. Copycat Mortison. Early this year it seemed Winsted's animals might be spreading when from Waterbury, Conn, were reported some chicks which had hatched out in fur instead of feathers. Investigation proved this to be the work of a copycat, however, not a real migration of fabulous fauna. One Louis Mortison...