Word: potted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eventually this discreet and exceptional communication came under the piercing but kindly eye of great M. Painlevé. He studied the photograph, saw a face of rugged grandeur. He read the attestations of Mme. Jacquet's poaching ways with an egg, learned that her pot au feu was delectable and sound. Finally the War Minister decided that in this instance the uncertain quantity or "X" stood for a good & honest cook. Therefore Mme. Jacquet Was appointed, last week, to the regiment at Tourelles until such time as it may be ordered upon active service. Pleased but with a sense...
...reason seemed simple, rational last week to citizens of Vimoutier, 35 miles south of fashionable Deauville. In their public square stood a splendid new statue, ready for unveiling, a statue of a peasant woman holding a pot of cheese...
...Watson. In Indiana, Candidate Watson & friends found a kettle as black as their pot. They found, or said they found, Will H. Hays & friends behind the Hoover candidacy there. No denial coming direct from Candidate Hoover, the Watson-Hoover battle in Indiana temporarily assumed the aspect of local gang...
...accomplish as Mayor of New York City (1918-25) and for a remark his wife did not utter to Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians,* last week earned pats on the back from his hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
There are 880,000 words in the Bible; 940,000 in the complete works of William Shakespeare. Add these together and season with the Arabian Nights of Scheherazade; the mixture will fail to fill a pot as big as that which would contain the Revelations of a Wife, 3,000,000-word novel, longest in the world...