Word: potful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from other chefs-as snobility, cafelegant, upperclawss, Longuyland, the Rarefied Set. He also leased an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side (Maury Paul said a good address made all the difference). And one thing more: "I think it is very important," he said, "not to develop a pot belly...
...folks at home and the boys abroad, were all but unanimous: speed up demobilization, or else. Sweating under the mounting pressure, Senate Military Affairs Committeemen talked nervously of "passing a bill." When General MacArthur, in Tokyo, guesstimated he could police Japan with 200,000 men (see INTERNATIONAL), the pot boiled...
Canada's Scots sighed with relief. A real Scots night without haggis would be unthinkable, haggis without meat impossible. Now they could boil a sheep's stomach bag (with the windpipe hanging over the side of the pot to carry off impurities), stuff it with ground heart, liver, lights, suet, onions, oatmeal and seasoning, and boil again. The steaming, evil-looking haggis would be brought to the banquet table to the skirl of bagpipes and the words of Bobby Burns's ode to "the great chieftain o' the puddin' race...
Last week the Rev. Mr. Forbes, onetime chaplain of Philadelphia's City Mission, used the Bishop's words as ammunition in taking a few pot shots at those "pundits in religious education" who for 25 years "like an old phonograph record" have been expressing "great concern" over the "shocking ignorance" of Christian youth -and doing nothing about it. Chaplain Forbes had recommendations...
Back in Kansas City he dropped in at Eddie Jacobson's Westport Men's Wear Shop, examined the stock expertly, bought 18 pairs of size 11 socks. To Eddie, who hadn't won a pot in the poker game, he chuckled: "I thought you'd need this sale, after what we did to you last night." Then, recalling the dark day in 1922 when they had gone bankrupt, he asked, "How's business, anyhow...