Word: potted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flower Drum Song. A melting-pot musical about Chinese-Americans, routinely but deftly stirred by Rodgers & Hammerstein...
Flower Drum Song. A melting-pot musical about Chinese-Americans, routinely but deftly stirred by Chefs Rodgers & Hammerstein...
...human sorter who puts them in boxes. Another conveyor belt takes away the droppings. One man can easily take care of 7,000 birds with an output of 4,000 eggs a day. Outside each cage is the laying record. When this drops, the hen goes to the stewing pot...
...simple principle of chemistry: that a constant solution is maintained through a constant proportion of component elements. Messrs. McCarran and Walter (along with a sizeable segment of Congress, which passed the bill over President Truman's veto) decided that in 1920 the national elements in the Melting Pot had reached the proper mixture, and decreed a quota system of immigration whereby the number of aliens admitted from each country was proportional to the national origins of the population according to the 1920 census...
...Grant Richards, publisher of such authors as Shaw and Housman, appears in the novel as Doron Oldcastle, "an ostentatious tyrannical turpilucricupidous half-licked pragmatic provincial bumpkin." Publisher John Lane, who published works by Anatole France, Ernest Dowson and Francis Thompson, is seen as Slim Schelm, "a tubby little pot-bellied bantam, looking as though he had been suckled on bad beer." Oldcastle commissions Crabbe to write a history of the Medici family for ?1 a week and ?10 on publication. Young writers today, who may count on being filled with gin and lobster if they so much as admit...