Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some could articulate, while others not; And suddenly one more impatient cried 'Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?'"--Omar Khayyam...
...implies that the world his latest stories tell about is cockeyed, arsy-versy. A literary double-lifer, he has concentrated his serious ambition on his few novels, written his many magazine stories simply to make money. Though critics sniff at them, say they sound like thorns crackling under a pot, readers forgive him the pot for the sake of the crackling. Of this collection of 18 stories, all are reprinted from magazines...
...that it's over, I don't think I'll work for either one of them again," said she. "It has been a terrible ordeal. Since October I have been like a pot boiling over. I think I shall take a week's holiday before I look for another...
...Raleigh, N. C., just before he was electrocuted for murder, Sidney Etheridge, 45, Wartime machine-gunner against the Hindenburg Line, gave his recipe for enjoying Hell: "The first thing is to boil your black cat. You get your pot and go into the woods. Just as you get ready to boil your cat, a wind will come through the woods and bow down the limbs of trees and sweep the ground clean for a place for the pot. After you boil the black cat, you pull the bones, every one of them, between your teeth. But first the wind blows...
...rearm without exceeding certain strict limitations, return to the League of Nations, sign the Eastern Locarno Pact and adhere to a general European pledge to resist "unprovoked air aggression" (TIME, Feb. 11). Instead of which Hitler had torn up the diplomatic pack of cards and reached for the jack pot. The game was over...