Word: cauldron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intrigue comes through the efforts of a couple of grafters (Ethel Merman and Warren Hymer), a scheming Virginia colonel (Burton Churchill) and an Egyptian potentate (Jesse Block) to do our hero out of the legacy. Eddie is pushed off the deck of a transatlantic liner, dangled over a steaming cauldron of oil and generally pushed around, but in the end he flies accidentally from Egypt to New York with the treasure clutched in his arms and all the city's moppets are treated to an ice cream orgy that leaves them fat as little porkers...
When the mixture fumed and sputtered like a devil's cauldron, Wallace Foreman realized his error. He bellowed. Seven other men came running, hastily agreed that 9 gal. of nitroglycerin had been inadvertently manufactured. Nine ounces, they knew, was enough to blow them to bits. There was a mad rush for telephones...
...discovery of radioactivity of uranium compounds in 1896 excited them greatly. They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian Government, began a long series of crushings, pulverizations, leachings, precipitations, crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer. Much of the time Mme Curie spent stirring a cauldron with an iron rod as thick as one of her thin arms. At last they had a thimbleful of a white salt. In it they found first polonium, finally radium...
Speaking to a gathering in the Junior Common Room after the John Winthrop House Thursday evening dinner, Admiral W. S. Sims, U.S.N. retired, remarked "the world situation calls to my mind the picture of a cauldron of boiling oil, around which stand the so-called statesmen of the world. Every now and then they drop in a bit of ice to keep it from boiling over. They do not think of the fire below. Not the number of weapons, but the causes of war is the vital question...
...Streets of New York, or Poverty Is No Crime. "It is a gloomy moment in history. In France the political cauldron seethes and bubbles with uncertainty. Russia hangs as usual like a cloud dark and silent upon the horizon of Eu rope ; while all the energies, resources and influences of the British Empire are sorely tried, and are yet to be tried more sorely, in coping with the vast and deadly Indian insurrection. ... Of our own troubles no man can see the end. If we are only to lose money and by painful poverty be taught wisdom, no man need...