Word: tablespoonful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University faculty cookbook, published the same day, showed that General Ike had not lost the common touch. It contained his folksy, first-person, column-long recipe for vegetable soup, (sample subtlety: "Take a few nasturtium stems, cut them up in small pieces, boil them separately . . . and add about a tablespoon of them...
...paper shack at Meredith, N.H., three-year-old William Burns died last week of asphyxiation. A pathologist found black pepper in his lungs. Mrs. Evelyn Cote, 24-year-old mother of the boy-by her first marriage-explained to police that she had fed William "not more than a tablespoon" of pepper as punishment for wetting his bed. She was charged with second-degree manslaughter...
...prize-$600 and a gold medal-went to pretty, rosy-cheeked Jessie Hazard Smith, an Edmonton housewife. Her dish: Alberta Gold Medal ranch steak, cut off the fillet, rump, sirloin or tenderloin, dipped in salad oil, grilled in a hot pan from eight to twelve minutes, spread with one tablespoon of butter and sprinkled with salt & pepper...
...that black Delta soil is "right bad eating." In certain parts of Mississippi, poor whites will walk miles for a spoonful of dirt from a favorite bank of clay, because it "tastes sour, like a lemon." In other sections of the South, some top their meals with a savory tablespoon of dirt, believing that it is "good for them," despite its constipating effects...
Twenty - nine gold footballs were awarded to members of the Varsity football squad, and in addition Vern Miller "who likes ice cream" was presented with a chocolate ice cream football--which he immediately attacked with a tablespoon...