Word: teapot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first performance at the Opera Comique. Critics were doubtful. There were strange harmonies, strange instruments?a rattle, a xylophone, a whip, a nutmeg-grater, a slide flute, a lutheal.? For the first time the Opera Comique orchestra played a fox-trot?for the dance of the Teapot and the Chinese Teacup...
Admittedly, the system is uneconomical and inefficient, but it is the single method of maintaining economy and efficiency. In business, a board of directors which does not trust its executives discharges them; in politics, hiring and firing can be accomplished only at stated periods in attenuated fashion. As Teapot Dome and the Aluminum case have proven, the best available agency for business-like supervision of the executive is the Congressional inquiry...
...could hardly imagine a teapot small enough for this tempest. Mutual understanding seems to be circumscribed by a menu card. Be it admitted that great and holy causes are at stake on both sides and that "all is fair in love and war"; yet Mars would hardly stoop to wield a bill of fare...
From a muddle of politics Senator Walshs voice rings forth demanding an investigation of the aluminum trust. Had the Montann Democrat not started the successful scent of Teapot Dome, one would be inclined to jeer at his snooping propensities. Among politicians, it is whispered that another sensational exposure will put Senator Walsh in line for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...Louis U. Su attorneys filed an appeal in the case of the U. S. v. The Mammoth Oil Co., et al.-the famous suit for the annulment of the Teapot Dome oil lease to Harry F. Sinclair. The suit tried in Cheyenne, Wyo., was decided against the Government by Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy (TIME, June...