Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toledo Federal Court last week the pot's objection to being called black by the kettle was denied. Nan Britton, unmarried mother of a 12-year-old girl who she says is the offspring of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding, was suing Charles Augustus Klunk, hotel proprietor of Marion, Ohio and friend of the 29th President, for selling a book called The Answer to "The President's Daughter" (TIME, Nov. 9). The Answer described Miss Britton as a "degenerate," gave the lie to her account of extra-mari- tal adventures with President Harding set down...
...Andy Blair and his childless wife Philly were as poor as their neighbors, maybe poorer. So when Andy, chopping at a stump of firewood, struck an iron pot, he was sure it was a pot of gold. For once Andy w was right: the pot held over $1,900 in coin, and two pearls. At first the old couple wanted to run and tell everybody, then they thought better of it. They hid the treasure in the house, invited the neighbors to a surprise party. By the time the night of the party came they had worried so much about...
...rascals posing as house-painters, uninvited guests, smelled a rat. They watched their chance, came back later, pilfered the pot. Philly was nearly foundered with grief. But Andy had been too smart for them, he had taken out the treasure and hidden it somewhere else. When the thieves came back for another attempt the sheriff got one, the other was glad to escape. Said Andy to his wife: "And whenever I open the pot to take out, I'll remember to take out a piece for the Lord. Recall it to my mind iffen ever I forget, Philly. Recall...
...purely popular authors get more & more established, they feel it behooves them to justify their popularity by infusing their entertainment with a Message. American Beauty's Message: from the mixture in the U. S. melting pot of inbred aristocracy and peasant stock will come a new & nobler breed. But you do not have to pay attention to Edna Ferber's Message to enjoy her story...
...their Americanism, their Christian standards of decency, dropped into French customs and came back to import them into the United States." Nevertheless, officers of the Legion, feeling particularly insulted by the expression "staggering drunks," roared at Dr. Wilson. Besides attacking the American Legion in Kansas City, Dr. Wilson took pot shots at the late Dwight Whitney Morrow, John Jacob Raskob and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick. Defending Bishop James Cannon Jr., he said: "He saved $3,000 and placed it in a savings bank where it was drawing 3% interest when Wall Street men of Jewish persuasion argued him into investing...