Word: pots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...station knows that oil is an expensive commodity. The Government is speedily finding out the same thing. Last week it was admitted in Washington that the $100,000 which Congress appropriated for the special criminal and civil prosecutions in connection with the Sinclair and Doheny oil leases at Tea pot Dome and Elk Hills, respectively, was practically exhausted...
...European stage. Other members of the Cabinet have been abroad since 1919, but now appear there-to use the European terms-the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Finance. And this happens at a time when diplomatic and economic questions are sputtering very lustily in the European pot. Who can say what important developments are not in the making...
Nora Bayes, famed actress: "I sailed for England, there to make my home. To reporters I stated that my three adopted daughters, aged four, five and six, would attend English schools. Said I: 'Too much melting-pot in America! . . . English girls are trained to have quite as much independence as American girls, but they do not adopt the annoying jazzy qualities so popular with their sisters here...
...said "Mais non!" He came home at 12. Why should his children come home half an hour earlier? The working classes voted solidly for a 12 to 2 lunch-hour, giving papa a chance to see his child and the child a chance to eat and digest the daily pot-au-feu, broth with huge chunks of sour Parisian bread. A strong minority voted to continue the present system. Thirty thousand families did not vote at all. Teachers became alarmed lest they should be required to work more than their statutory six hours a day. There were present...
...however, they can turn their attention toward remedying an evil which has just been exposed by another convention, one in which the P. E. N. should have a very acute interest. The newly launched crusade of the American Booksellers Association against the continued publication in enormous numbers of the "pot-boiler" type of novel will have the enthusiastic support of anyone who was tried to pick out a week-end book while trying to catch the last train out of town. Even though a part of the booksellers' protest may be answered with the statement that the tremendous in crease...