Word: potful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, where name-calling among newspapers is standard practice, and practice has made performance perfect, there was a violent outburst of pot-&-kettle vituperation. The Chicago Tribune naturally figured...
...from Hot Pots. Arthur Christiansen - grandson of a Danish grocer and son of a Liverpool shipwright - started newspapering by covering parish council meetings, funerals and hot pot suppers for the Wallasey (Cheshire) Chronicle. By 1929 he was assistant editor of the Sunday Express. In that job he distinguished himself the night the British dirigible R-101 crashed in France in 1930. He leaped from his bed at 2 a.m., sped to his office in pajamas, remade his paper, scooped all England...
There were awkward situations with foreigners (many of the royal relatives were Germans who never quite mastered English). Prince John of Glucksburg nearly caused a rising of the clans by shouting enthusiastically at a Highland ball: "I am agreeable to see the Queen dances like a pot." (He meant...
...study of what happened when the lid came off the coffee pot may be prophetic of what will happen when the lid comes off everything. The Wall Street Journal found...
Dirt Farmer. Owlish Alvin Saunders Johnson is himself a savory ingredient in this academic melting pot. In his nearly 70 years he has taught economics at Columbia, Nebraska, Texas, Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, Yale. Much to the puzzlement of his more exotic colleagues, he remains in manner the Nebraska-born yokel. Slow-spoken, foot-shuffling, pipe-sucking, he is as crammed with rural lore as an October silo with corn. Johnson's happiest moments include working with his seven children in his Nyack, N. Y. garden...