Word: pots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston and Lowell railroad, an oil can used on one of the early engines, a group of switch keys, instruments used in surveying the Boston and Lowell railroad and the original surveys, which are very valuable, the first rail of that road, and a large watering pot with two glasses which was used in the '80's to provide drinking water for passengers...
Into the boiling-pot, traders poured facts, reports, rumors. Among them: ¶ The Brothers Fisher of Detroit, owning more common stocks than any other U. S. group, will form a billion-dollar investment trust to hold their securities. In Manhattan, the mighty Bankers Trust Co. will help finance the holding company. ¶ Alfred Emanuel Smith, vacationing in the South (see p. 9), has agreed to head the $50,000,000 bank now being organized by John Jacob Raskob and many another Manhattan capitalist...
...epigrammatic speech when-what do you think?-a beautiful pair of legs goes by. The pursuit, tailored with a good deal of deft comic detail, leads in and out of bedrooms and round and round a jealous husband until, at Kathryn Carver's request, a waiter removes a pot of flowers to expose, on the other side of the table, the lovelorn face of Mr. Menjou. At this point you are conscious that you have been fairly well entertained though by no means as well as in some other Menjou-Vajda stories...
Established by a shrewd village elder as insane and therefore a sacred oracle, Blettsworthy eagerly assumed the role which preserved him from the dinner-pot. It was an easy part, for everything he said sounded mad enough, concerning as it did another, and therefore impossible world. The elder, interpreting these mad oracular utterances as convenient, found his Sacred Lunatic a useful alternative for the tribal totems, miniature sloths, to whose whispered advices all unpopular policies were attributed. These wriggly, but sacred, little animals were distantly related to the race of Great Ground Sloths, evil-smelling Megatheria, who persisted though they...
...Hooverizer Hughes's remark last week in Chicago, that "the Democrats, to take Smith's tariff plan, will have to eat more crow than the Democratic stomach can stand," the Smith retort was: ''What a delicious pot of crow the Governor [Hughes] is compelled to witness his party eating on the Federal Reserve Bank system.'' Then he announced that all Democratic members of and candidates for Congress had been telegraphed and asked if they would stand by the Smith tariff declaration. Four-fifths of these Democrats had replied in the affirmative, "the other 20% being away on campaign tours." Then...