Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...descent (his father, a Troy, Mo. judge, changed the name from Buonfiglio) and kinship to Napoleon. Handsome, swarthy, he quit West Point in 1881 and tried his hand at land-trading in the Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken $800,000 out of Kansas when he bumped into the late Bartender Tammen and was persuaded that Denver was ripe for a killing...
...shut off from his plant. Then Editor Bangs's readers did for him what New York Times readers probably would not do for Adolph Ochs. Women's organizations hurried to the News plant with lanterns. Farmers drove in with gasoline pressure lamps. Friends rigged a gasoline melting pot for linotype metal. Willing, brawny arms hauled an old automobile into the plant, hitched its engine to the News press. Crowds milled around the doors to watch the first edition come out only an hour and a half late with the streamer headline: N. I. P. ADMITS PART IN CONSPIRACY...
...would like to see the Ambassador before he sailed this week. The President-elect outlined his debt ideas to Sir Ronald during a four-hour talk at Warm Springs. Mr. Roosevelt considers himself "in a poker game" on the debt negotiations, from which he hopes to win a pot of trade advantages for the U. S. in return for any cut in British obligations. Britain, no mean diplomatic poker player, began by ruling out all idea of economic concessions as the bargaining price for debt reductions...
...Manchuria Proper." Spouting hot springs make the oases ideal for growing opium. Opium has made vastly rich the Governor of Jehol, walrus-mustached War Lord Tang Yulin. Last week Tang's strapping big North Chinese soldiers on their small, shaggy Mongolian ponies, jogged down precipitous mountain passes to pot shot at the mighty clanking War Machine of Imperial Japan as it debouched from the railway...
...business called Duron Chemical Co which made paint and floor polish at Pompton N. J. Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center was a customer. Howard Scott's job was to deliver his goods show his customers how to use the floor polishing material. He disliked that, let the business go to pot...