Word: cauldron
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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...
...white plume from her crater as a beacon. Ten days ago Pilot D. G. Richardson, operations manager of the Mexican division of Pan American Airways, flying north on his regular trip from Guatemala to Mexico, swung close to Santa Maria, looked idly down at the boiling lava in her cauldron. Peons working in the coffee shrubberies stopped to wave a feliz viaje (pleasant journey...
...dancing contests. Among them were kilted Lieutenant-Governor Robert Randolph Bruce of British Columbia and William Egbert of Alberta, and the Rev. Charles William Gordon (Ralph Connor), Canadian Novelist author of The Sky Pilot, To Him that Hath, who conducted an open air religious service at Lake Devil's Cauldron. Some of last week's events were...