Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still sniping at giveaway shows in his own field, pouch-eyed Radio Comic Fred Allen found time to fire a pot shot at a neighbor: "I haven't bothered much about television ... I think the men who used to take passport pictures are now the cameramen ... it seems to be nothing but radio fluoroscoped...
...Tacho swore he would not be flanked again. "You think I'm going to let them put me between two fires? No! The battle for Managua will be fought right over there in Tegucigalpa. When the first Legionnaire pokes his nose in, the Guardia will be there to pot...
Playwright Maxwell Anderson, who once bought advertising space in a newspaper to strike back at the critics who had panned his latest play (Truckline Café in 1946), explained in the New York Herald Tribune why the American theater has gone to pot: "Moving pictures offer a cheap substitute; wars have damaged our morals, our manners and our taste; our whole western civilization grows doubtful of itself . . . But," he added, nursing his old wounds, "when a playwright [is] . . . publicly whipped, flayed alive, drawn, quartered . . . by every theatrical commentator, that's an experience that can drive good playwrights as well...
Five in Camp. The five camped for a while near the damaged plane. Hitchhiker Scalise made an emergency shelter of brush and parachute cloth. The Spam sandwiches intended for lunch lasted five days. Weatherbeaten Sergeant Scalise became cook. His tin helmet made a fine cooking pot...
Book lines stretched out all over the Square yesterday, but at the end was a postwar pot-of-gold--plenty of books...