Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunster devotion, of Leverett loyalty, to ring up his cash-register. He had samples made, he set silk-mills a spinning with a three hundred dollar check; and presently his window on the avenue flashed forth its stripes of purple, blue, and green. But alas, this rainbow touched no pot of gold. Many paused to stare but few went in to buy. "Today the window is empty of its pride. The necktie menace has been put down...
...steering committee of Democrats, Montana's Walsh, New York's Wagner, Arkansas' Robinson, studied compromise programs. They brought back several and out of the amendment boiling-pot one was finally concocted, to wit: a $750,000,000 Federal appropriation, half of which would be given the States outright for road construction, the other half to be loaned to States whose Governors, promising laws for repayment, certified that their relief agencies were no longer operative. An alternate proposal by New York's Senator Wagner, wise to joblessness, was that the money be apportioned to States on the basis of their unemployment...
...Strawherry" blondes use a brunette's paint pot to achieve something between a Texas sunset and "the steel mills by night" effect on the jowls and cheek hones. Eskimo brunettes are just about as successful with the raspberry, rabbit's-ear pink, peach and natural-blonde. And when the women with a will and a head of hair like the Alabama crimson tide white-wash the freckles and lay on a coat of orange-peel dust they are ready for the brickyards union...
Revelry. Toastmaster Bowers began the attack on the Republican President and his party by mockingly recalling the G. O. Promises of G. O. Prosperity in 1928. He read half-forgotten campaign advertisements?"A Chicken in Every Pot," "Two Cars in Every Garage," "Republican efficiency has filled the workingman's dinner pail and his gasoline tank besides, has made telephone, radio and sanitary plumbing standard household equipment"?and then proceeded to compare them caustically with existing economic conditions. He accused the Administration of giving "human misery the absent treatment," ridiculed Republican Chairman Fess's plan to "sell Hoover...
...return for the Perkin Medal, Professor Burgess showed chemistry & industry his remarkable new brick. Fearing that its properties were incredible, he tossed one into a pot of water, cried: "Notice that it floats. If I should leave it here for a year it would still be floating. In other words we have a brick which is light, one-fifth the weight of an ordinary brick, of high heat-insulating quality, porous, yet resistant to the entrance of water, and of a crushing strength sufficient to support its weight if built into a tower five times the height...