Word: potful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James ("Jim") Browning, world's heavyweight wrestling champion: two out of three falls in a match with bullet-headed, pot-bellied old Ed ("Strangler") Lewis; in the Mexico City bullring, watched by a crowd...
...offer of a partnership in a Swiss clinic of his own. Nicole seems better but Dick cannot get Rosemary out of his head. Several years later he runs into her in Italy. They become lovers and quarrel. Dick goes back to the clinic, takes to drink, gradually goes to pot. His partner buys him out. Nicole, now completely cured, looks at her once-adored husband with new eyes, sees him rapidly losing his charm and his character. She takes the patient Tommy Barban as a lover, divorces Dick. He goes back to the U. S. and becomes a less & less...
...throne. The boy, a haemophile, was in constant danger of bleeding to death. Honest doctors did all they could for him. Finally the distracted Empress turned to spiritualists, mediums and quacks. She was abetted in this by the Montenegran Princesses, Militza and Anastasia. superstitious daughters of the pot-bellied King Nicholas of Montenegro and sisters of Queen Elena of Italy. The Montenegran Princesses introduced into the palace a series of strange conjurers including the famed Philippe Nizier-Vachot, a onetime butcher's assistant from Lyons who claimed to be the reincarnation of the Prophet Elijah. Elijah fell from favor...
...Columbia University, that yeasty pot of progressive ideas, President Roosevelt dipped such potent Brain Trusters as Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (see p. 55), Abraham S. Hewitt, Leo Wolman, Blackwell Smith. But Columbia was still left with a good supply of bright young professors who were disgruntled with the old order, passionately dedicated to the new. Last week many of them moved in a body to Cleveland, where the Progressive Education Association and the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence were convening. There they planted in the educational world the same kind of ideas which...
Eugene Meyer, Herbert Hoover's Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, is a potent GOPartisan. While rehabilitating his paper's editorial staff, prestige, circulation and advertising Publisher Meyer missed no opportunity to take pot shots at the New Deal. Last fortnight he stepped boldly out with a series of critical articles called "The New Dealers-the Low Down on the Higher Ups." Chapters of a book yet to be published by Simon & Schuster, the sketches were signed "By the Unofficial Observer...