Word: spoons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...equipment and ammunition. Later the Russians opened their communal food center to the Canadians. Enthusiastic Major Murdoch reported: "We tasted such delicacies as borsch and cranberry pie for the first time, and were regaled on steaks hung till they were so tender they could have been eaten with a spoon...
...best women golfers in the U.S. include Helen Silleck Holleran (co-owner of the New York Yankee baseball empire), Sylva Annenberg Leichner (niece of Publisher Moe Annenberg) and Grace Amory (ex-stepsister of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt). Last week in Brookline, Mass., these gold-spoon golfers and no other top-flight amateurs matched strokes for the Women's Golf Championship...
...Palestine, Tex., a trusty in the jail made a key from a spoon handle. It fitted most of the building's doors but he used it only on the liquor vault...
Fortnight ago, threatening his own and still other resignations, Censorship Head Sir Walter Monckton asked the Cabinet to do three things: 1) have the Ministry rather than the Foreign Office direct over seas news and propaganda; 2) give the Ministry direct access to news sources in stead of spoon-feeding it with handouts; 3) give the Ministry authority to release news. Said the Cabinet...
...laughed with him, but when the laughter was out of his country's heart, Wodehouse was not ready to share her sufferings. ..." Commented the Daily Express' subacid Columnist Paul Holt: "[Wodehouse is] one of the best loved Englishmen alive, [but] he is now using quite a short spoon to sup with the devil. . . . Life in hell is good to live, I guess, if you are Mister Lucifer's personal guest...