Word: pots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Place. When it was built in 1884, the Murray Hill was the very last word in elegance, from the grey marble grand staircase to the dazzlingly newfangled electric lights that gleamed on the first two floors. There was a fireplace in every living room, a gilded chamber pot under every bed, a brass cuspidor in every room. The washstands were marble, with brass legs; many a wall was hung with imitation Fragonards and Watteaus. The largest and best suite was set aside for Grover Cleveland. When Cleveland went to the White House in March 1885, the food for the inaugural...
...Pot v. Piccolo. The Sodality was founded in 1808 by eight undergraduates "for mutual improvement in music." It owes its hoary record not to the enthusiasm of its audiences but to an institutional tenacity for which Harvardmen are famed. In the 19th Century the Pierians were noted for their prowess with the pot rather than the piccolo. Minutes of many meetings read: "The Sodality met, practised, liquored and adjourned...
...chief who, unlike the usual blustering buffon that Hollywood Nazis usually are, is more sinister than laughable. Peter Lorre, an unseen corpse after the first few scenes, and Dooley Wilson, playing "As Time Goes By" to repair broken hearts, complete the list of ingredients in this North African melting pot...
...Earl Brown's rags-to-riches quintet never stopped fighting, running, scrambling. Not until they had shown their Nassau "superiors" who was boss under the backboard, and out in the keyhole, where the pivot and jump shots of Burditt, Dean Hennessey, Hugh Hyde, and George Dillon put Princeton's pot-shooters to shame. shame...
...Blessing. This year Victory gardens have the Agriculture Department's blessing: Secretary Claude Wick-ard wants 12,000,000 in cities, 6,000,000 more on farms. The Department has arranged for production of a special Victory Garden Fertilizer (three parts nitrogen, eight parts phosphorus, seven parts pot-ash*) and is ready with all kinds of free advice and pamphlets. Seed companies have keyed their advertising to Agriculture's campaign. From almost any catalogue, neophyte gardeners can choose a victory garden combination ($1 and up) with full instructions how, when and where to plant it. With a little...