Word: pots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of all, the people are important to her. The Boer, the Briton, the Jew, the Asiatic, the half-caste?with each she deals separately because each is in himself an entity. South Africa, she seems to say, is a melting pot that lacks a fire. Finally she considers the Kaffirs. These, a brown Northern people who conquered the native blacks at the time of the Dutch Discovery in the 17th Century, are now the cheap labor class. They are the burden which the white man has been too weak to carry but not too weak to destroy...
...Cleveland, one Willie Williams, motorist, rattled over the pot-holed streets, was arrested and fined $10 for having on his car license plates that read "Ohio 1906." (In that year, Ohio's "plates" were brass numerals rivetted on leather pads...
...less than the pot on four aces...
There is one case of Dickens Items, a complete set of five famous Christmas books in beautiful condition, the parts of "Our Mutual Friend", of "Dombey and Son", and the parts of "Pickwick Papers" bound. Most interesting is a travelling ink-pot engraved "From J.F. to C.D." with an autographed note by Dickens" sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth certifying that the ink-pot was given to Dickens by his biographer, Mr. Foster. This group of Dickens material was loaned by Chauncey Stillman...
JILL?E. M. Delafield?Harper ($2). The unlovely pot to which young Londoners went during and after the War is again warmed up and stirred. Jill, nubile daughter of a polite demimondaine, gets mixed in with jobless Jack Galbraith, whose time is spent begging for a pension and hoping to win public prize competitions, and his wife Doreen, who supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes...