Word: potful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Logs are rolling again in Washington as industrial and agricultural groups, together with their Congressional alter egos swathed in the philosophy of Hawley-Smoot, take pot shots at the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act in general and prospective import duty rate reductions in particular. The Committee for Reciprocal Information has been informed that "lowered import duties constitute a threat to American industry, agriculture, and defense," and Senator Butler, Republican of Nebraska, has revealed that the reciprocal pacts have been "a gigantic hoax on the American people . . . solely for the benefit of other nations." But the faithful of the high tariff flock...
...from the Boiling Pot. While all these potential rewards and troubles boiled furiously, Bob Young spent most of last week in the piny woods of northern Florida, expertly banging away at quail. He was the guest of Mrs. George F. Baker Jr. on her 13,000-acre Horseshoe Plantation. The Baker family has been associated with the House of Morgan for several decades, but Young is often the best of social friends with his business enemies. His hunting companions at the Baker estate were the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, with whom Young and his wife are on first-name terms...
Later, little Willie sickened and died: "Yes, my darling, impossible as it seems, our precious little soldier boy has been taken away." Later still, to forestall Yankee marauders, "I took my silver sugar dish, cream pot, bowl, forks and spoons and put them into the legs of a pair of your drawers . . . tying up each leg at the ankle and buckling the band around my waist. They hung under, and were concealed by, my hoops. It did well while I sat still, but as I walked . . . the clanking destroyed all hope of concealment. ... I could not restrain my laughter, which...
...formula plot is certainly not one of these faults; what goes on in Finian's Rainbow almost defies synopsis. A satirical and social-minded fantasy, Finian tells of an Irishman (Albert Sharpe) who borrows a pot of gold from a leprechaun, brings it to the U.S., and buries it somewhere in the southern state of "Missitucky." The gold's magic powers turn bellowing Senator Billboard Rawkins first into a black man and then into a kindly one; take the kinks out of the romance between the Irishman's daughter (Ella Logan) and her Missitucky beau. And, bereft...
...featured with various other Town Hall concert artists on Keynote Album Number 127. His cohorts are a heterogeneous lot. Trumpeters Charley Shavers, the modernist; "Wild Bill" Davison, the archaie; clarinetist Ernic Caccies, the smooth and polished; and pianist Joe Sullivan, the heavy handed, are all in the melting pot. The residue is for the most part interesting, yet restful, and certainly not run of the mill...