Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhode Island, 4,000 in St. Louis. As the Sit-Down fever flashed like heat lightning over the land, ten farmhands on Charles M. Schwab's estate at Loretto. Pa. supplied themselves with a radio and gas burner, began a sit-down for more pay in the potato cellar...
Soon as the Senate convened next day, Senator Robinson resumed, with every parliamentary trick in his bag, his attempts to get the Byrnes hot potato tossed out to cool in committee. But newshawks noted that gruff Joe Robinson was arguing with unaccustomed joviality. He grinned when, each time he asked for unanimous consent, North Carolina's Bailey boomed: 'T object...
...been shown over and over again and proved to the hilt with statistics that colonies are not a paying proposition." Does Professor Langer or anybody else suppose that colonies would be sought, and when acquired, maintained, if they were NOT paying propositions? Does anybody hang on to a hot potato, if it is burning his hand? Nations DO get something, and enough, from their colonies, so that they will hang on to them. Somebody gets the gold, or somebody gets the trade, or somebody gets the glory, or somebody gets a good naval base, etc.; and generally, while a select...
Chase & Sanborn dropped the program like a piping hot potato. In its place they hastily substituted "Do You Want to Be An Actor?", another mass appeal program, in which amateurs read skits...
Musical history is slyly footnoted by the mishaps that befall famed artists. Metropolitan Opera veterans still chuckle over the horse that ate Hagen's beard years ago in Gotterdammerung, the slap Geraldine Farrar gave Caruso in Carmen, the hot potato he mischievously pressed into Nordica's hand. Playing Tosca in Vienna before the War, Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown...