Word: potpourri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their tour the doctors held 64 scientific sessions, read and listened to 175 papers on a potpourri of medical & surgical subjects. They were most interested in comparing notes with their Latin-American colleagues on such tropical diseases as amebic dysentery and sprue* which have lately been increasing...
...weeks a judge acting (according to Michigan law) as a "one-man grand jury" had been investigating the causes of the old banks closing, of their staying closed, of the reasons why three bank plans collapsed. Result was a potpourri of charges and counter-charges-that the old banks never should have been closed, that they were and still are solvent, that Manhattan bankers, Senator Couzens, the R. F. C. or rival motor makers had stupidly if not maliciously kept Detroit from getting back her banks. Three weeks ago the one-man grand jury recessed to give Edsel Ford...
Best new pantomine was the Victorian "Piq-Nique," illustrating a hoopskirted female terrified of spiders, fishing worms, the cold brook; awed by the imaginary male recumbent under an umbrella. In "Webs," an overintellectualized conception, Miss Enters struggled ineffectually with the jazz age, moved hysterically to a Symphony" potpourri of and Cesar "Papa Franck's Loves "D Mama," Minor ended up on one knee like Al ("Mammy") Jolson...
Writing once a week, Colyumist Kahn devoted his first column to a defense of Colonel Lindbergh against the current press vogue of baiting him; his next, to debunking of the endurance flight stunt. His third column was a potpourri of impressions beginning, "Understand that sanitary conditions [at Newark Airport] are to be improved and that provision is being made for the comfort and convenience of air-voyagers." Last week came an impassioned if unoriginal protest against the newspaper practice of playing up airplane crashes while auto and rail accidents are treated casually...