Word: spooning
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...deserted stretch of ocean shore, in an empty house, on a kitchen table, in a glass of milk, stood a shiny spoon. For seven months it stood there, unprotected against the salt tang in the air, the dampness, the lactic acid of the milk...
Across the kitchen stood a gas stove, slowly rusting. In the living room, on the hearth, a set of fire-irons covered with aluminum and bronze paint, rusted slowly. Copper and brass bowls, candlelabras, ashtrays, spent the seven months covering themselves with verdigris. Still the spoon stood in its milk. The milk evaporated. Still the spoon stood. Still it was shiny as a bride's present...
...spoon's owner, an engineer of the Chemical Treatment Co., felt his heart cockles glow warmly when he reopened his summer home recently and found this state of affairs. He had covered that spoon with "Crodon," a new alloy containing chromium (next to diamond, the hardest of all substances), which had been perfected for electroplating purposes by Prof. Colin G. Fink of Columbia University and some associates, of whom the spoon's owner...
...number of the trenches which have been made, and even on the surface, old remains from former buildings have been found. An English penny, dated 1742, the year of the erection of Holden Chapel, was found several days ago by the foreman. Tony, close beside the chapel. A silver spoon of the pre-Revolutionary period was turned up by a spade yesterday. A host of other articles found during the excavating last fall have been retained and catalogued...
Maria Jeritza, famed soprano, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan, sang in Fedora. Opposite her played Tenor Gigli, one whose voice is like honey tapering from the underside of a spoon, but whose height is abbreviated. Now Jeritza, as all the world knows, is a queenly lady "tall as a tall church candle" (TIME, Jan. 5). Mr. Gigli, whenever he sings with her, must swell his cockerel bosom, look to his biceps if he would be seen to play the man. In the last act of Fedora, hero and heroine meet, brawl; the latter is hurled to the ground. Gigli...