Word: pots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Along with that thoughtlessly generous idea that America should receive any and all imigrants with open arms, there runs a parallel theory that America is a "melting pot"--a kind of cauldron into which the most fundamentally different races may be poured, stirred together, and turned out American citizens. If there is to be a recognized, American type, then the various races must give and take within the pot and emerge much alike. But up to the present time there has been little of this expected merging. Instead of a national type, there remains the same widely differing groups...
...well argued that since this country was constructed on Angle-Saxon principles, none but Angle-Saxon immigrants or Northern Europeans closely skin are proper stuff for our "melting pot". By eliminating the fallacious idea that the United States is a "melting pot" and the sentimental idea that every immigrant whatever ought to a welcomed in, the soundness of this argument is apparent. But the immigration law of 1920-1921, which attempted to put this into effect, generalized too far. In the first place, there are certainly individuals from southern Europe who are morally, mentally and physically fitted for citizenship, just...
...streams of population that have been and are pouring in upon us are age old in racial character and capacity. We are the melting pot. Into it has been poured, almost promiscuously, every dross ingredient of citizenship that the earth produces, the good...
...School of Archeology disclosed relics covering every period of Egyptian history and prehistory. The chief find was a papyrus manuscript of St. John's Gospel in early Coptic, midway between the Vatican and Sinaitic codices (earliest Greek Biblical manuscripts). It was wrapped in linen rags in an earthen pot, much of it in perfect condition, and is now on exhibition at University College, London. It dates from the Fourth Century and differs in several ways from the orthodox text. An iron dagger, considered the oldest iron implement known (about 4,000 B. C.) and three human skulls, provisionally dated...
...possible to concoct a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by the reader until the last chapter. But it is not typical of my work. I am known as the first interpreter of the London Ghetto. Children of the Ghetto, Jinny the Carrier and The Melting Pot are more representative of my numerous novels and plays. I have lectured in Great Britain, Ireland, Jerusalem, Holland and the U. S. I am nearly...