Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four collections of poems by Archibald MacLeish are now on display in the Poetry Room of Widener Library. The exhibition contains "The Happy Marriage", his first published verse; "The Pot of Earth"; "Streets in the Moon"; and "Poems...
...regular Met chorus, moreover, comes through with its characteristically amusing antics, presenting this time, among other numbers, a flower dance, by the use of colored stems and blossoms glowing brilliantly against a stage which is otherwise smothered in impenetrable blackness. A spectral watering-pot, bobbing, supposedly unsupported, above the stage to the rhythm of a soprano solo will amuse you as it converts anomalous dark masses into posies to start off this dance of the flowers...
...pot declares that the Italian professor is the representative of a kettle "which has crushed the rights of labor and debased culture." Then to prove that the kettle is really much sootier than the pot, the Executive Committee of the League charges that, at Columbia, the Casa Italiana has disseminated propaganda to the detriment of the university. The mildewed, but still applicable warning to those who live in glass houses rears its ugly head...
...characterizes the astounding and revolutionary change in the social philosophy of the country that has taken place within the last few years. Unfortunate is the fact that the bill is being met with too little opposition from employers and that the rugged individualists have contented themselves by taking ineffectual pot shots at its provisions. Keen observers feel that in the mad political scramble the bill will be so butchered that the resulting panacea will be based on the idea, preached by Justice Brandies when he was a prophet in the wilderness, that each state should experiment with the various theories...
...years ago in Wisconsin a hard-working cartoonist named Carl Anderson sweated over an idea for a drawing he hoped to sell the Saturday Evening Post. Slowly, painfully the idea took form as a swaybacked, pot-bellied horse and two small boys. One boy was bald as a buzzard. The other boy lifted him up until his naked pate pressed against the horse's sagging belly. Asked the second boy, "Does your head feel warmer now, Henry...