Word: cauldron
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...boiling and bubbling of Author Hutchinson's cauldron never ceases. It begins when lovely little Renée Séverin, wife of a French officer, leaves the tropics to take her two children to the ancestral home of the Séverins in northern France. The most sensible character in the story, Renée nevertheless has more than a little of the mysterious in her makeup: an undisclosed past, a touch of African blood in her veins, strange intuitions, dark, puzzling eyes. She is a rock of common sense compared to her dreamy husband, Captain Pierre...
...prosperity' a wild speculation was building speculative profits for the speculators and preparing the way for the public to be left 'holding the bag.' ... In that orgy of 'prosperity' the poorest vied with the richest in throwing their earnings and their savings into a cauldron of land and stock speculation. In that orgy of 'prosperity' slum conditions went unheeded, better education was forgotten, usurious interest charges mounted, child labor continued, starvation wages were too often the rule. . . . Mammon ruled America. Those are the years to remember-those fool's paradise years before...
...porphyry castle, where a queen named She (Helen Gahagan) mistakes Leo Vincey for his ancestor, explains that she has been in love with him for 500 years. The hospitality at the castle is good; the Queen's character, bad. When she tries to dump Tanya into a cauldron, Leo Vincey rescues her, runs away. He and his associates find themselves trapped in the cave of the mystic flame. The Queen jumps into the flame to show Leo that it will do him no harm. Instead of rejuvenating her, it turns her into an old lady. Muttering, in effect, "What...
...museum men discovered that two extremely important bones were missing: the thin little pelvic bones with vestigial thigh bones which show that 60 or 70 million years ago whales had serviceable legs. Andrews and Clark sprinted to the try works where the blubber had already been plumped into a cauldron, fished around until the two little bones were retrieved...
...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...