Word: cauldron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impresario Edward Small, who financed it, has thrown into his bubbling cauldron practically every ingredient except newts' legs and adders' tongues...
...sensibilities and emotions and sorrows and desires and hopes and ideas of a race with vivid feelings and deep emotional reactions are forced in upon themselves, bound inward by an iron ring of frustration: the prejudice that hems them in with its four insurmountable walls. In this huge cauldron, inestimable natural gifts, wisdom, love, music, science, poetry are stamped down and left to boil with the dregs of an elementally corrupted nature, and thousands upon thousands of souls are destroyed by vice and misery and degradation, obliterated, wiped out, washed from the register of the living, dehumanized...
...bakery, located in the basement of Eliot House only a minute's walls from the main kitchen, is an organization in itself. Here, surrounded by modern dough-making and molding machines, stands a baker stirring doughnut blanks in a cauldron of boiling oil,--Some day the bakery hopes to acquire a modern doughnut machine, but for the present this time-honored method of making them must do. Prize possessions of the bakery, however, are two huge built-in rotary evens that work like a Ferris wheel, carrying the pans of dough on slowly moving shelves, which insure an even heat...
...night was Halloween: PBH whipped up a special corps of 30 men to fan out into key houses and organize celebrations. At the South Boston Boys' Club alone 1500 kids delighted in the old standbys of sawing girls in half, sipping eider, and calling forth taffy apples from a cauldron of goo. This afternoon is the Rutgers game: another squad of 30 leaders will corral a howling 200 anxious to see football played in the Stadium...
...French are hampered, as the British are not, by powerful Communist parties at home and in the colonies. The Communists did not create France's colonial troubles, but they aggravate them. Last week, although most Frenchmen did not know or care much about it, a cauldron of hatred was seething over half the French colonial world...