Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money will cease coming to Massachusetts. He promised, on the contrary, that he could get from Washington everything Curley could, and said he had "a sneaking suspicion he could do more than Curley." He claimed that Curley's alleged nefarious practices to date are only an "ante in the pot before the game begins," Moreover, Mr. Bacon pledged his word that one hundred cents in every dollar received from Washington will be properly assigned...
...Jungle, the biggest literary bomb burst since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Sinclair made $30,000, a huge name for himself as a muckraker. President Theodore Roosevelt wanted him on the commission which laid the groundwork for the Meat Packing Law of 1907. Sinclair refused, but kept the pot boiling to such a pitch in magazine articles that President Roosevelt testily wrote Sinclair's publishers to "tell Sinclair to go home and let me run the country for a while...
Anybody with a few pennies and a big pot can make soap from fat and caustic soda. The only trick is to make the soap strong enough to take off the dirt but not so strong as to take off the skin. Selling soap is another matter. And soap is moulded, colored, perfumed, chipped, flaked, powdered and blown through the end of a nozzle for the sole purpose of making a housewife buy one soap instead of another. Indeed, the defense went further last week, arguing that the form of Ivory Snow, Supersuds or Rinso had little to do with...
...Wiggs star has ascended to heights unknown. But despite the kindness of a newspaper editor (Kent Taylor) and his sweetheart (Evelyn Venable) the cough of little Jimmy Wiggs becomes worse, and at last brings tragedy. Finally, Mr. Wiggs does wander home, but not from the Klondike, not with a pot of gold, but with exactly enough to pay the 25-dollar mortgage. And with his appearance the domestic felicity of Mrs. Wiggs, her serenity yet undisturbed by emotions of a radical or communistic nature, becomes complete...
...Guide had erred. His weighty problem still unsolved where can he turn for guidance and initiation? The dank silence of his lonely room give forth no answer and his brooding only lessens his faith in humankind. Most miserable is he who finds all women unclassifiable and all colleges a pot-pourri of femininity...