Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harlem, N. Y., Thomas Allen, 45, was eating in a coffee pot.* The waiter took his catsup away. Eater Allen went for the waiter with a pocket knife. John Christor, proprietor, shot angry Allen dead...
...Boston Arena, countless couples pivot and tremble in a din of sobbing cornets and wailing saxophones. . Hollow-eyed and ghastly in the lurid light, they dance day after day. A marathon is on. They must not stop. A pot of gold is at the end of this insane rainbow. Days elapse and a jaded couple poses exhausted and physically shattered before the eyes of a nation to receive a purse of money...
...world last summer, air-minded U. S. financiers blinked interested eyes at the potentialities in lighter-than-air travel. Foremost among the blinkers was Charles Edwin Mitchell, board chairman of National City Bank. While public excitement died down after the accomplishment of the Graf, he kept the financial pot simmering, aroused potent protagonists. In October 1929, International Zeppelin Transport Corp. was incorporated under the laws of Delaware...
...York International Flower Show was John Davison Rockefeller Sr. But in a flower show sponsored by the Halifax Garden Club of Daytona Beach, Fla., near his Ormond Beach winter home, he last week won two blue ribbons for a large basket of deep magenta petunias and a pot of Easter lilies, clapped his withered hands...
This Man's Town depicts an unhappy New Year's eve as manifested near a lunch wagon in a red-light district. The author, Willard Robertson, appears as a good-natured, dirty-aproned counterman who shoves the mustard pot with unerring accuracy and can never remember in what town the significant episodes of his life occurred. Troubled by rumors that his girl is living loosely, he remarks: "I been layin' awake for weeks hopin' she'd say something in her sleep." During the evening a policeman is riddled with a machine gun at the wagon...