Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bean Pots & Trouble. Then in the '30s, his books stopped selling. Money came seldom and trouble often. Once, on an unconventional camping trip, the poet scalded his right foot by stepping in a pot of hot bean soup. Police said he had been dancing in the moonlight. He demanded relief for poets from a municipal relief agency. Given a $2.50 voucher for groceries, he complained that he had no home, no way of cooking the groceries, and cried indignantly that he was unable to eat the voucher itself. He was reported dying of tuberculosis, and 50 Greenwich Village poets...
Connoisseurs of fine wines are usually heavy-jowled, bloated men with pot bellies. But Rene Peroy, Harvard's fencing coach, cultivates an expert taste for wine along with a tip-top physical condition. Past sixty-five, he can fence with one student after another, leaving them limp with exhaustion, while he hardly breaks into a sweat...
...Omnivorous and insatiable, [Picasso] helps himself, without scruple, from every pot in turn. Such are his abnormal digestive powers, that after only partial mastication, he will regurgitate each exotic titbit in a form but slightly distorted in the process ... A wily gastronome, he knows what's good...
...escape the enervating climate of the tropical lowlands. Drawn by good land and climate, nearly 1,000,000 European immigrants, mainly Italian, surged into Sáo Paulo state at the turn of the century, just when the city was ready to get up & go. Out of the melting pot of older Brazilians, Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards, Germans, Levantines and Japanese emerged the Paulista, cockily claiming a spiritual relationship with the swashbuckling bandeirantes (flag bearers) who founded Sáo Paulo in 1554. Those hardy adventurers roamed so deep into the backlands, enslaving Indians for coastal sugar planters, that they broke...
Until he cooled slightly on the G.O.P.'s congressional leaders after the Taft-Hartley Act, Big Bill also kept the pot boiling as the champion of Republicanism in labor. He was chairman of the Hoover and Landon labor committees, was mentioned in 1944 as a possible Republican vice-presidential candidate. A good twenty-five years ago, he revised the Brotherhood's entrance ritual to exclude Communists...