Word: potful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royal stables were no great shakes, but Victoria did keep her house in order. Last week over her birthday (May 24) the good Queen would have been horrified to see her respectable great-grandson George filling his pockets with race-track winnings (see above) while his household went to pot...
Slick Chick. In Lexington, Mo., a hen, bought for the pot, worked furiously for a reprieve, produced eight eggs in nine days, six of them double-yolkers...
Last week, stopping off in Manhattan on her way to the relics of the Europe she loves, she carried her latest book (Testimonios III). In it she described herself as "a South American potted cactus." She has been trying to throw the pot away since she founded (in 1931) the literary magazine Sur (South) in the forefront of a national movement in Argentine letters. Later she started her own publishing house, Ediciones Sur, to publish books she likes...
Groused long-nosed Columnist Lyons, who says that he borrows "from my witty wife" many of the gags he credits to others: "No one has the right to the fruit of our labor; no man, using only scissors and paste pot, should benefit from another's leg-ear-and-eyework...
...very last moment, he scored another success. Government and Communist negotiators agreed to extend the truce machinery to Manchuria. There the slowly evacuating Russians have left behind a situation which George Marshall openly Calls "critical." Meanwhile in Chungking this week, Communist General Chou kept the pot simmering by accusing the Kuomintang of seeking to continue "one-party dictatorship...