Word: potted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theodore Chanler's The Pot of Fat, at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Mass., had a plot based on a Grimm fairy tale about the disastrous marriage between a trusting mouse and a villainous cat. The libretto evoked critical catcalls, but the music had a light charm bordering on jazziness. At 53, Composer Chanler has never tried his hand at opera before, but his songs are standouts...
...this uproarious memoir Cordelia Drexel Biddle (now Mrs. T. Markoe Robertson) serves up a Philadelphia pepper pot of stories about the Main Line's celebrated Biddies. Most of the book is about her father. Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, a punch-and-judo-throwing millionaire who led fully as strenuous a life as his good friend Teddy Roosevelt. As an amateur boxer, the bald, spike-mustached aristocrat fought under the name of "Tim O'Biddle." The great Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons called him one of the best amateur fighters he ever saw. In 1908 he went four roughhouse rounds...
...status quo now was part of the intellectual atmosphere. Writings of the period indicate that men of the 1920's were constantly reminding themselves that many others only a little older had been killed in a war which they believed was wrong. Despite living in a "chicken in every pot" society, they could see sufficient examples of economic inequality to feel that something less than justice prevailed, and to want to do something about...
...appeared that only the Communist party was ready to adjust its program to the opportunity which presented itself. So, in a way, it was inevitable that the dissenters of the 1920's should become the communists of the 1930's. The new goal was not a chicken in every pot, but anything at all in the pot--in a word; economic security. Communism offered this...
...novelty of seeing people jump out of the water onto a diving board or running backwards at full throttle wears off-and that's pretty soon. But the film at the Brattle uses visual foolery in the same intelligent way that a good farce uses its rudimentary pot: as a string for its gems of humor. Spice of Life is a series of sketches examining a variety of pests and bores. Logically unconnected, except by the fact that the poorest of them are quite amusing, these little episodes are narrated and acted in by Noel-Noel. Since he also wrote...