Word: potted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sailing for France from Manhattan, I said: 'I have seen mixed peoples in many parts of the world, and they are never superior types. Your country has shown both its strength and its wisdom by protecting itself from too much infiltration. . . . The trouble with the melting-pot is that the grease comes to the top. . . . When we consider the interval separating Pasteur from the monkey, it seems to me the Negro has traveled a long distance in his short contact with Western civilization. Next year I am going to Africa to study the ancestors of these Western Negroes...
...pot had called the kettle black, and the kettle had white-washed itself and called back reproaches at the pot. War tingled iri the Balkan...
...whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body in a coffee sack, his head in a tin pot, who took Swedenborgian Bibles to the Indians and in 46 years of roaming planted fruitful apple pips over 100,000 square miles of Middle America...
...Pepper Pot...
...last week the cadets of Urban Military Academy (Hollywood), rose as usual from dinner, began to march out. Jackie Coogan, 12, cinema boy, now a cadet, seized a pepper pot, threw pepper at one Brin of Bjorkman. For this, he was demoted from rank of corporal to private...