Word: spooning
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Some are reminiscent of the rabbinical parables Singer heard his father tell in Poland. A rich miser lends his neighbor a silver spoon. Next day the borrower returns the utensil, and brings with it a smaller one because "your tablespoon gave birth to a teaspoon." Delighted, the miser offers a set of candlesticks, only to learn, two days later, that they have passed away. "How can candlesticks die?" screams the rich man. Greed gets a talmudic reply: "If spoons can give birth, candlesticks...
...predominate among the province's 6 million residents−rallied behind the secessionist cause. Before long the new provincial government had enshrined French as Quebec's only official language and forbidden the use of English-language signs even in predominantly English-speaking neighborhoods. Thus a Montreal greasy spoon known as Irv's Light Lunch was rechristened Chez...
...incapable of reaching out, but he has to do it his way." On hearing that his sister is still so deeply touched by his gesture, Warren grins. "Well, she sent me something nice when I won the Oscar," he says. A moment later he grabs a spoon and gouges a symbolic boundary line across the table. "As for what goes on between Shirley and me," he says, "you can safely call it complicated...
...only under strictly controlled and "professional" conditions, that should not vary according to the character and circumstances of student and instructor. While I would never do all my grading in Tommy's, and in fact do most in my office which is directly across the street from this "greasy spoon", I see nothing wrong with taking some time there for a coffee and doughnut, or with bringing my work with me. I cannot speak for "Harvard Parent," but I find the enforced isolation of any office rather forbidding at times, especially when the rows of books in front...
DIED. Frank W. Epperson, 89, concocter of the Popsicle; in Fremont, Calif. On a cold San Francisco night in 1905, eleven-year-old Frank left a glass of lemonade on his back porch and awoke the next morning to find the drink frozen solid around a spoon that was in it. Nineteen years later, Epperson patented his "handled, frozen confection or ice lollipop." Dubbed the Epsicle, it was quickly a success, but Epperson sold his patent in 1929 to a small company that changed the name to Popsicle. "I was flat and had to liquidate all my assets," he said...