Word: teapot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though General Manager Johnson had quelled the mutiny. It was announced that Diva Flagstad would be back to sing Walkure on Feb 8. Massive Tenor Melchior had apologized. Said Impresario Johnson: "The Metropolitan Opera is bigger than any individual. . . . Let's not bother with a tempest in a teapot...
...veteran of the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Roberts first attracted national notice as Government Prosecutor in the Teapot Dome cases, and was raised to the Court shortly after the conclusion of that litigation. He has written the Court's opinion in many controversial cases...
...freighter City of Flint, tempest teapot of the war's sixth week, when she was taken captive by Germany, later freed from a Nazi prize crew by Norway, sailed at last out of Narvik for home with a cargo of iron ore. Leaving the harbor in a fog, she whanged into a British freighter, had to put back to repair damaged plates...