Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pot & Pro. Charlie White's anger was as incandescent as molten steel. He fired a sizzling telegram to Larson protesting his "clandestine negotiations" as contrary to "good morals." White claimed that, including tonnage royalties, his offer would have netted the Government $1,275,000 compared with $1,248,000 from Kaiser. (WAA said Kaiser's rental would exceed $1,500,000.) White also wired 403 of his foundry customers that Republic was "going out of the pig iron business." By week's end, the frightened foundries were deluging WAA with protests...
Unperturbed, WAA's Larson curtly wired White to turn everything over to Kaiser-Frazer. Then Edgar Kaiser, Henry's son, dropped in at Republic to take over. Poker Player White felt like the Eastern tenderfoot who started to take in the pot on a royal flush, only to have a Western pro lay down a pair of deuces and announce that he had a Galoola Bird. The Westerner pointed to a sign on the wall...
...Aboard. Numbed by "the dull ache of parting with my creditors," Traveler Perelman took off from New York carrying a machete, cummerbunds, maps, and "an apparatus for distilling seawater." First stop was a world-famous shrine in Camden, N.J. named Joe's Coffee Pot, where the plane was grounded. Second stop was Hollywood, where Traveler Perelman had scrimped a living in the '30s. " 'I'd rather be embalmed here than any place I know,' [Hirschfeld] said slowly. He turned up the collar of his trench coat and lit a cigarette, and in the flare...
...motifs. Franchise's face-happy, sad or angry-his baby's smile, a bullfighter, a skeletal fish, were repeated often in his designs. There were also ten deep jugs and thin-necked jars designed as a sort of hollow painted sculpture. One of the liveliest was half-pot and half-owl. Picasso's pottery owed a great deal to archaic Mediterranean sculpture and ceramics, which represented beasts and gods in a similar bulging shorthand, but it also had a 20th Century wit and a deliberate lack of refinement that marked...
Stop the Music, a hardy musical hybrid of "Miss Hush" and the Pot o' Gold, is a variation on a well-worked theme. Master of Ceremonies Bert Parks telephones to people chosen at random across the U.S., asks the listener to identify the popular tune then being played. If he can do that he wins a nominal prize and qualifies for a chance at the Mystery Tune, a stumper that sounds tantalizingly familiar. The most recent: Get Out of the Wilderness, vintage 1850, with a marked similarity to The Old Gray Mare. If a listener identifies the Mystery Tune...