Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reference to "Compass Boy," TIME, April 20, Science; it may interest Dr. DeSilva to know that the natives of Madagascar (where I recently spent several years), having no word for ''right" and "left" must say, "hand me that gourd to the northwest of you-pass me that pot to the southeast of you." Thus through many generations they have developed an uncanny sense of direction. After hours of night marching over ridges, down ravines, through swamps, I have seen my porters arrive at a strange village, in a strange neighborhood, squat down to cook their rice and manioc...
...pot calling kettle black, Prime Minister MacDonald retorted that Mr. Baldwin "has changed his mind more often than any other party leader in the history of the nation! . . . What is his solution today...
...Democratic national pot came to a brief hard boil in the ornate dining room of Washington's fashionable Mayflower Hotel one day last week. Then it settled down to a long sullen simmer. The fire under the pot was, as usual, Prohibition...
This proposal started the Democratic pot boiling. Drys thought their chairman was using his high office to crystallize Wet sentiment against them, to pledge the Democracy against Prohibition long in advance of the national convention. Tennessee's Dry Senator Cordell Hull began the pleading: "My God! The Democratic party has never had such an opportunity. Why take a lantern and search out something on which we can divide? Let us leave this question alone...
...Dole? Such pot shots at the enemy pass more or less unnoticed in Parliament, but Mr. Snowden made his own party sit up and gasp when he appeared to foreshadow a cut in the unemployment dole...