Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House office buildings they pushed crates of furniture and filing cabinets. Painters slapped on new paint. Scrub women wore out their knees. There was a minor tempest in the office of Senator John Overton of Louisiana because missing from its place beside his desk was the special coffee pot in which his daughter Katharine brews him French coffee four times daily. The House restaurant, newly redecorated, appeared with a new menu on which the cheapest luncheon was 60? instead of 45?. Arthur Vandenberg Jr., secretary to his papa Senator, appeared as a musician at a fashionable tea. John Nance Garner...
...eager to cooperate, but not under the supervision of a Labor leader. The biggest businessman Coordinator Berry could get to chairman his Management section was John G. Paine, Manhattan, who heads the Music Publishers' Protective Association. Perfectly willing to let NRA-substitute ideas simmer in more than one pot, President Roosevelt sent the Berry conference a noncommittal greeting, written before his South American trip, expressing the hope that their deliberations would "promote the stability of our whole national economy...
When the movie magatheria invented the double feature to lure pedestrians, they cooly set out to produce cheap, third-rate pictures to go along with major efforts. Gradually temptation overcame, and theatres have taken to showing two pot boilers at once. Such a disaster has overtaken the Paramount and Fenway this week. "Isle of Fury" and "The Captain's Kid" are Trivial, minor affairs, each adequate as an aperitif to an important movie, but in combination they do not approximate a full meal...
...beseiged with complaints from individuals who became ill after a meal in these hotels. Intensive search failed to reveal the cause. Finally it was discovered that a silver polish used in these hotels contained potassium cyanide. A minute residue of this polish on a fork or from a tea-pot spout was quite sufficient to produce severe gastro-intestinal symptoms...
...Flynt, who "tuted" for 56 years straight. It was the custom 200 years ago for the students to present their tutor with silverware, but Flynt amassed so much silver that his last graduating class could not decide on a gift. They finally presented him with a large silver chamber-pot, which the students carried across the Yard on a Crimson cushion