Word: pots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should be a better cook than a politician? He or she, gets his living on delicacies compounded from the melting pot. But on the other hand who would expect a politician to write a cook book? He, or she, gets his living by keeping his recipes to himself...
Georges Theunis, Jack-in-the-box Premier (TIME, March 10, 17) proceeded recently to work up a favorable atmosphere by the time-honored political expedient known as "sweetening the pot." The employees and functionaries of the Kingdom of Belgium received increases in salaries. M. Theunis announced last week in a speech on budget economy that only one employee had refused an increase. That man's name is Albert, his official title is "King of the Belgians" and his civil list (royal salary) is 3,300,000 francs. The announcement was greeted with cheers from the Liberal and Clerical party...
...where the morning's stew?" if they have subsidied and congealed completely it will be indeed discouraging. But it is safe to believe that they will not. Not improbably there will remain underneath a small fire which will keep the pot bubbling, and which blown to fierce flames by the next winter monsoon, will have the whole congenial mess at a pleasant boiling-point ready for the appropriate seasoning of a very experienced chef...
...hopes rest largely on Pite the forward whose long range of pot shots spelled disaster for the Crimson in the Cambridge contest. He is either a great asset or a great liability. His presence in the line-up destroys teamwork, for he shoots every time be gets the ball regardless of his teammates positions. He is the possessor, however, of an uncanny eye, and he has caged his long-distance goals consistently enough to prove that his showing against Harvard was not a lucky flash...
...pot-mending tiger...