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...Revival. Altogether charming was the performance of Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel. Queen Mario was Gretel, a wee child with pigtails stiff as taffy sticks. Editha Fleisher was Hansel, just ragged and happy. There was a real witch with matted gray hair and a nose like a spigot who rode on her broomstick way into the sky and ate little children. There was a gingerbread house and a red-hot oven where plop ended the witch pushed by wee Gretel just too stupid to get in herself. "Hocus pocus. . . ." Children loved it. So did grown-ups who quite forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At the Metropolitan | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...These protected interests [sugar]," said the candidate at Peoria, "get five dollars for every dollar that goes into the Federal Treasury. . . , The President saves at the spigot and wastes at the bunghole . . . Cheese-paring policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Alarums & Excursions | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

...long-awaited announcement of the Advocate's dry competition was made yesterday, proclaiming Miss Katherine Welling of New York the winner, with "Spigot-Bigot" the prize word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEEK AT HARVARD | 3/1/1924 | See Source »

Miss Katherine Greene Welling of New York City contributed the prize word "Spigot-Bigot" to the Advocate "Dry" Contest and, as a result, receives the $26 prize and the degree of "Summa cum Laude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fair Winner of Advocate Contest Proves Women Not All Bone Drys; "Spigot-Bigot" Best Suggests "Die Hard" Variety | 2/29/1924 | See Source »

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