Word: cauldron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed over an embankment near Jiiterbog, 40 miles from Berlin, an electrically wired artillery shell exploded beneath it. Nine cars were hurled from the track, rolled down the embankment. Fifteen people were seriously wounded; miraculously, no one was killed. In the dining car a cook was hurled into a cauldron of consomme, critically scalded. Nailed to a telegraph pole near the track was a front page of the Fascist Der Angriff. Some one had scrawled across it: ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ASSAULT! LONG LIVE REVOLUTION...
Next day Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair flew over from Dallas, 110 mi. to the west, to see his costly cauldron. He found the entire countryside shrouded in haze. Workmen were busy clearing away 20 acres of pine forest surrounding the flaming gusher, trying to remove bits of the white-hot derrick and machinery. There was not much that Oilman Sinclair, always popular with his men, could do but assure speedy pensions to the families of the victims...
...staircase stalks a procession of pink elephants, rhinoceroses. The interior is even stranger, with carved witches and fairies, gnomes and children, a giant metal plum pudding, glass-eyed electric spiders that slither up and down on copper webs. To curdle young blood one room has a reproduction of the cauldron in which Jack's giant made pot-av-feu of his victims before Jack slew him. The walls are studded with bones...
Numbering among its 22 passengers Sir George Hubert Wilkins, polar explorer, and Lady Wilkins, on a belated honeymoon, the Graf headed for home via Seville, was twice belabored by storms. North of Lyon, on the last day of the voyage, Dr. Eckener described the squalls as "a regular witches' cauldron...