Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strewn with sawdust, and the lecture hall become a circus ring for pedagogic antics. Eminent professors at Harvard have on occasion carried their idealism so far as to request that students refrain from applause at the end of the hour, lest the educator quite humanly give way to the pot-boiling popularizer...
...drink. When he left town next day she went with him. Terry had agreed to look after her for a year, because she wanted to try everything at least once. '"Everything" was apparently contained in Manhattan and Harlem. Terry and Ruth took a Manhattan apartment, bought a Coffee Pot restaurant, worked in the daytime, in the evening plunged into dive after dive. Ruth kept getting Terry into trouble because she would insist on letting men kiss her or going places she had no business to go. But Terry invariably emerged triumphant from the fracas, dragging her with him. Eventually...
...Erode, Madras, India, 45 students at the London Mission School collapsed after luncheon. Thirty of them and the school cook died in agony; 15 were in critical state. In the soup pot, physicians found a well-cooked venomous lizard...
...will walk into the new Doric pillared dining room hoping to make a deposit in the new Bank of Cambridge. But with the passing of the years when age has blended all the buildings into one symphonic mass, everyone will realize that the dining room is but the melting pot of Adams House where all the raw gold of the coast is being alloyed...
...seek another in the building of the Panama Canal but, failing that, returned obscurely to Yale for his degree. He became a newsgatherer first in New Haven, later elsewhere. But in streetcars and on commuting trains he appeased something that was gnawing within him by writing fiction, mostly pot boilers. In 1914 he published Our Mr. Wrenn, his first novel. That same year he married Grace Livingstone Hegger, wandered with her from coast to coast, getting newspaper jobs and writing novels in his spare time. During this period he published The Trail of the Hawk, The Job, The Innocents, Free...