Word: spooning
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...Silver Spoon. In Germany's drowsy Munich last week Carol stepped off the Paris express, taxied to the flying field. He was still officially "M. Carol Caraiman," for he renounced even his family name of Hohenzollern when he abdicated as Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. n, 1926). His father King Ferdinand was then alive. His mother Queen Marie had yet to make her U. S. tour. Not until venerable King Ferdinand died 17 months later was Carol's bonny five-year-old son proclaimed King Mihai (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927). As he waited at the bleak Munich airdrome last week Carol...
...Cheap quick lunch emporium, usually greasy and smelly; frequently called a "greasy spoon...
Although the school has never had a department of journalism, in that direction is it best represented by its alumni. Knox was the " Siwash" of George Hamlin Fitch. Famed among other writing Knox alumni are: Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Don Marquis (The Old Soak), Eugene Field (newspaper colyumist, Poems of Childhood). Her two alumni presidents are journalists?President Britt and Dr. John Huston Finley (president 1892-99), now " editor emeritus" of the New York Times. Oldest living graduate (1859) is Ellen Browning Scripps, sister of Edward Wyllis Scripps and a prime mover in the early days of Scripps...
...fretted keyboard over which are stretched perhaps four, perhaps as many as 24 gut strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which has a flat bottom joined to the sound board by separate ribs. In appearance it is more like the mongrel, wire-strung mandolin...
...Unless she is borne to the dinner [for James Ramsay MacDonald at the White House] triumphant on the shoulders of Mrs. Nick Longworth and seated in the center of the table as a centerpiece with a silver candelabra in both hands and fed her soup with a long handled spoon by the wife of the Secretary of State, Kansas won't be responsible for what her presidential electors do in 1932. Verbum...