Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plainly it was no wonder that George V tried, as Britons learned he did, to dissuade Prime Minister MacDonald up to the very last moment from advising (i. e. forcing) His Majesty to prorogue Parliament and throw Britain's political future into the General Election pot...
...cordial shop is easily identified. It is a small, neat store in the window of which are some ginger ale or nonalcoholic liqueur bottles, or a pot of flowers. No longer is liquor on display inside; cautious vendors now keep it under a counter, behind a partition, or in an ice box out back. In some stores a prospective purchaser must bring an introduction or answer questions, but in most of them all comers are served with cheerful uniformity...
...novels and plays often make the best cinemas. A fair example is 24 Hours. Louis Bromfield's book receives substance in the cinema. Its overtheatrical characters, given faces, bodies, legs and voices, cease being utterly unreal and their problems serve some purpose beyond boiling an author's pot...
...steadfast, he surveys civilization with a calm and rationalistic eye, preaches to an increasing congregation the virtues of Reason. Russell's lucidity has rarely faltered, but of late years his published sermons have seemed at times a little thin. Now he admits his recent books were "mainly pot-boilers"; but says of The Scientific Outlook: "For my part, though I says it as shouldn't, I think it is a very good book." Its purpose: "To show up all the scientists who talk about religion, all those who make superstition a substitute for science." Russell obviously enjoyed writing...
...young barker, seems as moth-eaten as the lion. Winnie Lightner, hitherto blatant and unfunny comedienne, does well by the part of the elder sister. Charles Butterworth is also connected with the circus in some undefined and probably undefinable capacity. When he shells peas, they bounce out of the pot into which he drops them. In The Bargain (TIME, Sept. 14). Butterworth wore a colonial costume which made him look like George Arliss slightly out of focus. In this picture, he wears a derby hat which is less becoming. Good shots: Butterworth voicing his absurd hunger for "a nice bowl...