Word: pottered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alleged to have forsworn the haywire ways which brought him into disrepute with Hollywood producers. Diana Gibson looks like an outdoor version of Marion Nixon and acts with a promising swing. Best shots: Tracy defeating his hecklers by getting into the burning dance hall through the skylight; the Potter gang capturing the gold shipment by overcoming the staff of the armored car with gas released from an attacking automobile, an episode that will be censorable in several States since it suggests how to commit a crime...
Varro was patron to the son of one of his freed slaves, Terence, a potter by trade but an actor by inclination, who so strongly resembled the late Nero that he had once successfully impersonated him before the Senate. Nero's easygoing colonial administration had made him and his memory extremely popular in the East; the present government, with less flexible policies, was not. Varro's idea: to start the rumor that Nero had reappeared, then palm off his protege Terence as the revivified Emperor, thus stir up hornets for penny-pinching Cejonius. Varro knew...
...Susan Anthony Potter Prize was won by Karl E. Schevill '37 of Berkely, California, a transfer student from the University of California in 1934. This award is given annually for the best essay by an undergraduate dealing with the Spanish literature of the Golden...
Open to students of Harvard and Radcliffe, the Susan Anthony Potter Prize of $100 for the best thesis on the field of Comparative Literature was won by Miss Jeanette Eyre, Radcliffe '37 of Cambridge, a graduate of the Cambridge School...
...only one Negro character. Most readers will consider that his Hoop Pole Ridgers make up for the loss. Author Bradford swears he has made up the names of all his characters. Mersery Pillow's mother called her that after the planet Mercury. Brigadier-General Bushrod Johnson Potter was what Mersery and Lafe called their firstborn...