Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager, and Robert Sherwood, but many significant new plays have been given their American premieres here under the Club's auspices. A brief list of some of the more important would include Auden and Isherwood's "The Dog Beneath the Skin," Saki's "The Watched Pot," Johnston's "A Bride for the Unicorn," Coctean's "La Machine Infernale," and Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." The Club's production of "The Ascent of FL," early in the decade, is still a topic of conversation in the theater world...
...time the gang got through a fancy buffet lunch (courtesy of the Southern Pacific), a woman sword swallower had dropped in from a circus to swallow three swords, and Mayor Fletcher Bowron had read a proclamation making Campbell "mayor of the day." The Chamber of Commerce sent a chamber pot as a good-natured gag, and W. R. Hearst wired his congratulations...
...omens. If he carries a water jar, rains will be abundant during the coming year; if he bears a lantern and wears shoes, there will be a hot summer. This year, according to the astrologers, he arrived wearing a green dress, carrying a flower in one hand, a flower pot in the other and riding on a buffalo. That meant, of course, that cattle and crops would be badly damaged...
...Pot of Gold For The Bold...
...PITCHING G IP R H ER ERA RR SO W L POT Godin 2 25 7 17 2 0.72 8 28 1 1 .500 Hymons 1 3 2/3 4 4 4 9.82 6 5 0 1 .000 Turner...