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Word: teapot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girl behind the Teapot" returned to her traditional Waban haunts yesterday, pursued by gobs of eager Crimson men with poised pencils and address books. An estimated 460 freshmen turned up yesterday, while the "old girls" can while away their last hours of summer freedom until they have to report Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pretty Waban Lasses Begin Current Season | 9/25/1952 | See Source »

...baseball umpires, corset salesmen, jet pilots and bagel bakers dominate the screen. British panelists are more likely to be guessing at such occupations as winkle-washer, teapot-handler, kipper-packer, gentleman's gentleman, or sagger-maker's bottom knocker (a pottery worker). A strictly British question which suddenly narrows down the field: Are you nationalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Winkle-Washers | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

Childhood: Grew up in Whittier, about 15 miles from Los Angeles, worked in father's gas station, delivered groceries. Favorite family anecdote: when Nixon was a boy, he read about the Teapot Dome scandal in the papers, told his mother: "When I get big, I'll be a lawyer they can't bribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: NOMINEE FOR VEEP | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...teeth gave Stuart trouble, and he never got the mouth to look quite right. As a result, the painting has a somewhat grandmotherly air-despite the sword which Washington seems to clutch for assurance as he extends a reassuring right hand. The vague resemblance of the figure to a teapot, with the arms serving for handle and spout, earned the picture a sneering title: "The Teapot Portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PUBLIC FAVORITES (14) | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

During the spring the college atmosphere was explosive: Wilson died, the Teapot Dome scandal broke, and Copeland returned. The military admitted that you didn't have to take Military Science to play polo. Scared by the huge class of '27 the University decided early in March to limit the next year's freshman class...

Author: By David C.D. Rogers, | Title: Riots, Mental Telepathy, Exams and Probation Among Vivid Memories of 1927's Initial Years | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

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