Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Success when the small, swarthy little emigrant returned to his native France and bought for $750,000 a princely chateau in Touraine, ordering its ancient vineyard grubbed up to make a golf course which proved that Charles Eugene Bedaux had been thoroughly amalgamated in the American Melting Pot. It was Success for Mr. & Mrs. Bedaux to disport themselves on the Riviera with a wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rogers, one of whose dashing friends was a Mrs. Simpson. By this time Science was being served in columns of newsprint by the Bedaux Expedition of French Citroen caterpillar cars...
...Efficiency Expert apparently got the impression over that something distinctly more official was expected than for the Duke of Windsor and President Roosevelt simply to eat a Gridiron Club Dinner and for the Duchess simply to dine at the Women's National Press Club. Out of the Melting Pot meanwhile poured thousands & thousands of letters about the Duke and Duchess from U. S. citizens to the White House, the State Department, the Interior and Labor Departments and the National Parks Service. About seven out of ten stressed "American democracy," recalled the democratic reputation of His Royal Highness when...
...course, old before their time. Upon their arrival in Cambridge Town they rapidly become steeped in the notorious Harvard haughtiness--they never forget that they are the sons of the oldest and richest university in these almost United States. They forget that they were raised on corn bread and pot likker in East Lip, Ark., and go Beacon Street with almost incredible rapidity--usually because they are nearly all put on the Boston deb lists. A youth who has been at Harvard a few months Knows All, because he can toss off Ultimate on the great names and minds...
...then there came a time when we knew that Grandma would never see another Spring, never be able to lean out of her sunny window and spit at the children in the park again. She was growing visibly weaker, and began to miss the doctor with the chamber-pot almost every other visit. There was only one bed left in the house. And Grandpa never did come...
After the third quarter, Dartmouth worked to windward far better than their opponents, footing best on the port tack. It looked from the spectator fleet as though Harvard had picked up a lobster pot...