Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...347° Fahrenheit?more than hot enough to sear human flesh, to cook a potato, to convert water into steam (212° F.); but only half hot enough to melt lead...
...Plough and the Stars. About 10 p. m. on the night of November 27, 1911 there was a riot at a Manhattan theatre. Eithne Magee, chief actress, was bumped in the head by a potato; rotten eggs squashed stickily against the scenery. Fists flew in the audience; police swooped down in platoons, and the performance proceeded to a dishevelled but triumphant curtain. Horrified Irish residents had precipitated the fuss, irate because Synge's Playboy of the Western World, cast doubts upon the purity of an Irish girl. That the play was presented by their own Irish players, specially imported...
...sleep--in the good old cradle daze later entertained, diverted, but seldom amused, by stories of Harvard men, or further concerning Harvard men. I say we have not been amused: perhaps that is a trifle strong Whenever the story teller speaks as if his mouth were harboring a hot potato and says that in the way they talk around Boston, we laugh. That is only natural. But we also assume Harvard to have undergone adaptation to environment. A Harvard men must say "car" like a sheep with a cold in its nose, we think, simply because he likes to. Such...
...potato diggers...
...seldom heard at social functions." There was a besmirching leer in the Tribune's subhead: "Four Trucks of Booze." And when the bride and groom retired to the top floor of the Hotel Shelton, Manhattan, a Tribune correspondent was alone in smirking: "There was no throwing of plates or potato salad?probably because Mrs. Fifi Potter Stillman . . . was not along. But in the late afternoon, while reporters grouped on the Forty-ninth Street side of the hostelry, a bucket of water was tossed from the top floor . . . and splashed significantly near the scriveners...