Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kelly, so the police arrest Cohen Sr. and old Mrs. Kelly arriving there to bring back young Kelly and Cohen; and then Mrs. Cohen and Papa Kelly come to jail too and Mr. Cohen is so crazy-acting they padlock him alongside an ugly crook. It would be much funnier cut to two reels and without its terrible subtitles. Best shot: Cohen trying to get his wallet away from...
...classes−especially the lower−by what may yet grow to seem an epochal tour of the British Coal Fields (TIME, Feb. 1), where millions are jobless, well nigh starving, and might conceivably have turned against the Crown. With two gestures of convincing sincerity Edward of Wales did much to forestall that. The first gesture was his report on the unemployment situation, which he denounced in heartfelt fashion as "A ghastly mess! Worse than I would ever have believed!" His second gesture was to sell his whole string of horses, renounce the Royal sport of foxhunting, and settle down...
...much loved as delighted in children, and so the long terraces of the Tuilleries gardens were reserved pour les enfants des soldats de La Grande Armee. Alongside the children on other terraces were les blesses, crippled, blinded perhaps, but every man in shining uniform, rigid and silent as they gave the Last Salute, many with streaming eyes...
...most people pottery is too familiar an accessory to life to have much importance. Tiles, plates, saucers, cups, flower pots, vases are so necessary they are commonplace, manufactured and bought by the million. Normal purchasers exercise a natural regard for what is pleasing in pottery, but to select pottery as the distinctive work of a gifted individual would seem precious to most people...
Near "Crow House," Potter Poor's rude and congenial workshop home, is a purling stream which he has dammed to provide water power for his ceramics apparatus. In the building are his kilns and potter's wheels. Much of "Crow House" was built by its owner. Even the door knobs are of Poor pottery. The Poor hobby: sailing boats...