Word: potful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kansas City somebody's mother entered a meat shop, was handed a package marked $4.65. "What is it?" she asked. Said the clerk: "A pot roast." She kept on being difficult: "How much does it weigh?" The clerk sighed, kept his temper in a most gentlemanly way, and answered: "Lady, we don't weigh it. We sell it by the piece. Don't you want it?" Then the little lady made the biggest mistake of all. She said...
...then, even Hollywood's optimists expect that the present box-office rush will be subsiding. In short, Hollywood may find itself peddling high-priced products in a lower-priced market. That thought alone was enough to take some of the shine off this year's pot of gold...
...Pot o' Gold...
...pink coats and popinjays were not really his dish. Never really happy unless he is closing-or opening-a deal, he kept a finger in the financial pot. He made friends with the great London bankers, J. Henry Schroder & Co. and Alfred Loewenstein, the hard-headed Belgian who came up from nothing to be rated as third richest man in the world, controlling a worldwide utility empire. And V.E. played the stockmarket. By 1928, when he had just turned 30, he was worth some $40,000,000-on paper. But it was not enough. It just whetted his appetite...
...With being "sent down" as the possible penalty, the hero's prank is performed in broad daylight before an admiring student crowd. In reality, when playful Oxonians have felt an urge to embellish the Martyrs' Memorial, the chamber pot has been applied in darkness, in stealth and with cement...