Word: pots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this new glorification of the melting pot, all the trouble starts when Mr. Van Dorn, blueblood, announces a prejudice against the prospect of an Italian daughter-in-law and a Jewish son-in-law. "We gotta get outta this neighborhood!" shouts the agitated aristocrat again and again. He thinks that, by moving, the love of democratic young Americans can be thwarted. Mrs. Van Dorn disapproves of her husband's arbitrary ways. Through her, Playwright William Perlman brings out the salient point that Mr. Van Dorn is not justified in assuming Castilian airs, because, even if the Van Dorns...
Little newsboys, big newsboys, dirty-faced ragamuffins, scampering tatterdemalions dropped 19,314 pennies into a pot. The pennies soon lost their individuality, oozed together in a sea of molten copper, found themselves poured into a perk-eared, four-legged cast, emerged in the shape of "Laddie Boy," famed Airedale of the late President Harding...
...elementary schools, he stated that he was virtually self-educated. His literary handicraft produced The Big Bow Mystery (written to prove that it is possible to contrive a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by a reader until the last chapter) ; Jinny the Carrier; The Melting Pot. He was once listed as the third most eminent Jew in the world, Einstein considered relatively the first, Weizmann, inventor of TNT and head of the Zionist movement, second...
...innocent pastime, often perverted by adults into a gambling game; in principle it is the same as drawing lots. Several white pebbles and one black pebble are put in a pot or hat. The players draw one pebble each in turn, without looking. Drawing the black pebble puts a player out of the game, when all pebbles are returned to the receptacle and drawing begins afresh among the survivors. The tension of the drawing between the last two players in a good game is "frazzling" to the nerves...
...ever penned such a gambling scene as the one here, where young Jim, the camp "gaycat," "fuzz-face" or "gazoony" is admitted to the Thanksgiving Day poker game and after long lucky hours lays four aces on the horse-blanket to beat Bully Black Hawk out of a monster pot. They gave the lad his moniker (nickname) after that and he skinned (drove) mules thereafter instead of walloping dishes...