Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brien Entertains (by Harry Madden; produced by George Abbott) but she is not very entertaining. Snooting the century-ago Irish immigrants who fill her house, and sneering at all foreigners who are non-Irish, she is finally read a lecture on Americanism and the melting pot, quickly mends her ways. The play is well-meaning, noisy, false: the Maggie and Jiggs set transferred from comic strip to stage...
...melting pot is working, not only to the advantage of the American physique, but to the great benefit of American culture and civilization. Those who regret the tremendous immigration of the past would do well to reflect on the invaluable elements of every kind which we have gained from it. --The Boston Herald...
...tongues were retained on signs along the language frontiers and in areas visited by tourists. This seemed like good business even to the most zealous Fleming, but to Florimond Grammens it appeared as sabotage of the language laws. Believing in direct action, M. Grammens bought a brush and a pot of black paint, began to wander along the countryside hunting out French inscriptions which hurt his patriotic Flemish feelings. Soon numerous young Flemish students joined...
...mine patches of northeastern Pennsylvania June 21, 1877 is still remembered as Black Thursday. That was the day the Molly Maguires-ten of them-were hanged. Far from sissies, the Molly Maguires were a gang of Irish plug-uglies who for two decades had terrorized miners' families, taken pot shots at bosses, and made things generally hot for law-abiding mine folks. "Mollies" had been as much of a nuisance to the coal fields' feeble labor organizations as to the mine owners. When they were finally dispersed with the aid of Pinkerton detectives and hangman's rope...
...pot" in which black George White perished was an aluminum-melting crucible, large enough to hold a dozen...