Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natives. When Cortes returns, Montezuma is slain by his own people who, hornet-mad, drive the conquistadors from their paradise. The following spring the vengeful conquistadors raze the city, build a Spanish town, with streets squared "and the church conspicuous." Spanish settlers follow with their goats, babies, greasy pots. Old Eagle Bernal sickens to remember how, for all the conquistadors' labor, they only succeeded in fouling a paradisaical nest. The Author. Born in Chicago in 1892, Archibald MacLeish dates the beginning of his life from 1923, when with his wife and two children he sailed for France to write...
...hotel influence in American interior decoration. With wisdom the officials have refrained from putting a raised alcove in the dining room to the services of any high table. Just off the Dining Room is the Committee Room, with its Directors table and twelve chairs, where the Coffee Pot and other organizations meet...
Kirkland leisure has been well organized. Practically every night of the scholastic week there is some House function in progress. Chief among these is the Coffee Pot which is an undefined group meeting in the evening to hear some House member or some invited guest talk on any subject of general interest. There is no element of compulsion or of regularity in these meetings. Practically every field represented in the House has its enthusiasts incorporated in a group. There are the "Scientists", the "Englishmen", the "Economists", as well as, groups in the Classics and in History. Through all this runs...
Little Widow MacDougall started business in Manhattan at 41 with $38 and a coffee pot. She picked up things as she went along...
Linton Perry's most awesome trick is to pop both eyes at once. Then he looks like a chubby lobster ready to go plop into a pot of boiling water. He accomplishes the feat by squnching up the muscles around his eyes...