Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nosed steward of Princeton's Ivy Club. Because Artist Lintott painted faithful James smiling quizzically over a silver cocktail shaker, timorous club trustees refused to accept the picture, feared that its exhibition might bring Princeton and the Ivy Club into disrepute, suggested the substitution of a coffee pot. Artist Lintott, who had never seen James or any other able steward shake coffee, refused. Last week both portrait and silver shaker were on view in his studio...
...long geological walk to the end of the Aleutian Islands. Their jaunt took them into the hearts of Aniakchak and Veniaminoff. There they pitched their tents, found in their subsequent explorations great spurts of steam issuing from cracks in the craters' icy floors. They put a pot of beans over one of the steam streams, baked them for dinner. Another characteristic of the region which made Father Hubbard know that the two great peaks were alive was the lava formation. It was piled up in huge distorted lumps with jagged, jutting corners showing that it has been thrown...
Confirming Father Hubbard's observation that the Alaskan volcanoes show increased activity this year was the report brought to Seattle last week by officers of the power schooner, Aleutian Native. "Boiling like a pot of porridge" was their description of active Gareloi Island in the Aleutians...
...stage is likely to become confusing. So marked are the types in Jan Fabricius' play that one feels the mummers have mislaid the Sam Browne belts, pith helmets and khaki drill uniforms of England's tropical troops, adorning themselves by some unfortunate mistake in the wardrobe department with the pot caps and gaiters of the Dutch East Indies colonial army. This is rather a weighty matter since the costuming in such an absurd play as Insult is a necessary adjunct to the silly posturing of its actors...
...interior is even stranger, with carved witches and fairies, gnomes and children, a giant metal plum pudding, glass-eyed electric spiders that slither up and down on copper webs. To curdle young blood one room has a reproduction of the cauldron in which Jack's giant made pot-av-feu of his victims before Jack slew him. The walls are studded with bones...