Word: potful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along Manhattan's 57th Street strollers last week spotted in the window of the Ferargil Galleries a carefully painted cutout figure of a sandwich man in a pot hat, holding a sign, just as they have done for 40 years, people wondered out loud whether the little man was not a colored photograph. There was only one person who could have painted it. After eleven years, white-haired, handsome Maxfield Parrish was holding an exhibition...
Only apparent defender of the Yellow Press was the Patterson-McCormick tabloid New York Daily News, which cracked: "If the country is going to pot (which we don't think it is), it is not because Lindbergh has left us. A run-out by one harried and frightened prominent citizen does not indicate that the mass of decent people are in danger of being engulfed by the underworld...
...change the inimitable touches which the great authors have included in their works. Dickens knew that cheating at dice would be a great discredit to the witness in the minds of the Old Bailey jury but the director had to change the line to stealing a silver tea pot so as to insert a feeble witticism about its being plated anyway. Fortunately such departures are rare...
...Precious Burglar," Bab was a piquant girl in a knee-length skirt and a hat like an inverted pot. She got into all kinds of scrapes, including a burglary. To collegiate hearts in 1920 she came very close to being the Dream Woman. When the play opened in Boston. Edgar Scott, socialite senior from Philadelphia, translated this widespread emotion about Miss Hayes into the following verse for the Harvard Lampoon...
...bought or where he had made his purchases. His purchases may have been negligible and, wherever made, they were not made in London. After driving all other purchasers out of the great international silver market, he had suddenly turned his back and left that market to go to pot. World silver trading stopped dead in its tracks. From 65? the price on various exchanges dropped to 63¼, 61¼, 58½?- nominal figures at which little or no real business was done. Nobody knew what the price of silver should be today since the U. S. had kept silver...