Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place smelled like a garbage can. The least dispute over beds and boundaries might set whole parties of pilgrims against each other, with daggers drawn. Let a man come in late, and he would have his light splattered out by the contents of a neighbor's chamber pot. After the pilgrims finally landed at Jaffa, they were "rushed round the usual Holy Places in the utmost haste and hardly given any time to rest." Dissatisfied, Felix made up his mind to take the trip again...
...from the Senate floor for six weeks. Slowly recuperating from a lung operation (TIME, Oct. 10), he was forced to spend long hours in bed every day. While he was out of action, and partly because of his absence, the nation's bipartisan foreign policy had gone to pot...
When there is nothing to do in Bangkok, the Siamese give a party. Anything will do as an excuse-a new door for an old house, a new pot for the kerosene stove, or the casting of a new Buddha. Practically no one in Siam casts his own Buddha any more, of course, but since it would be unthinkable to buy or sell an image of the great god, the Siamese "rent" the Buddha from a store on a lifetime lease, and hold a casting party anyway...
Tryouts for parts in the Radcliffe freshman plays, "The Pot-Boiler" and "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," will be continued in Agassiz from...
...Pot-Boiler," a one-act satire on play writing, by Alice Gerstenderg, and "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," a comedy by James M. Barrie, set in London during the First World War, will both be given by the freshmen on April...