Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four wealthy New Yorkers got into an argument over which had the finest yacht. Upshot was the first ocean race, across the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to the Isle of Wight for a pot of $90,000 between Pierre Lorillard's 105-ft. Vesta, James Gordon Bennett Jr.'s 107-ft. Henrietta and the 106-ft. Fleetwing of George & Franklin Osgood. Choosing December as the windiest month, these three schooners set off with professional crews, many a misgiving in a rising wind. Vesta and Henrietta had their cockpits boarded over but not Fleetwing. On the eighth day, wallowing...
...Show is as far from the confessional type of memoirs as Tom Thumb from Jumbo the elephant. Fellows' life has been a three-ring circus, and he presents it in those terms. He ballyhoos himself as "a genie of journalistic paste jars, a fantastic flower nurtured in a pot of printer's ink, a product of the freedom of the press." True to his profession, he says he has done his best to tell the truth, adds: "Occasionally my tongue slipped into my cheek." No one who has ever been to the circus will mind that...
Actual loss of life was not great, Arab strategy being to take pot shots from housetops, destroy Jewish property whenever possible, then hustle off to bury their rifles in the ground behind their houses before British patrols could find them. British company commanders issued an order: Every shot from a hidden Arab sniper must be answered with a burst of 50 shots from an automatic rifle...
...political dynamite could blow larger holes in the Solid South than any other single campaign issue. Throughout the South began to appear cheap pamphlets containing blurred photographs of the Roosevelts consorting with Negroes, blatant text proclaiming them ardent Negrophiles. First public notice of this stirring of the black pot of race feeling was taken when copies of the Georgia Woman's World were placed on the chair of every delegate to the convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats," called by Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge and the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution in Macon last winter (TIME...
...natural enemies of the students and the natural enemies of man. So in the Christmas season of 1885 he determined to put them in their place in a right regal manner. To each of his instructors he sent, elaborately done up as a Christmas gift, a large chamber pot with the recipient's name ornamentally inscribed in the bottom. The perpetrator of the lordly jest was easily discovered, and Willie Hearst's connection with Harvard ended forever...