Word: teapot
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...have been following the parietal hours controversy with somewhat interest, feeling certain that the House system is a sturdy enough teapot to survive even this vocal a tempest. Dr. Cobb's letter, however, compels me to point out a rather obvious ambivalance which has characterized much of the debate: a nervous hopping about between moral and legalistic justifications for a change in the rules...
Habitually resplendent in a natty wool jacket, skirt and beaded cap, the paramount chief spends most of his time quaffing Simba beer and palm wine, the latter poured for him from a blue enamel teapot...
...famed William J. Burns private detective agency. Gaston loved detecting. And when Burns was hired to head the Justice Department's investigative bureau, Means finagled a job as investigator. This was the Prohibition era and the days when the Harding Administration was brewing up the notorious Teapot Dome scandal. Means was all over the place: he hauled in huge profits selling liquor permits (ostensibly for medicinal and other restricted purposes), and became a topflight influence peddler. He wrote a book about President Harding in which he "revealed" that Mrs. Harding herself had murdered her husband with poison...
...abetted by dentiperforate Terry-Thomas, who skulks about as a spy-is overdone drollery. The rocket that the duchy launches in full ivew of an invited delegation of U.S., British and Russian diplomats has a fringed curtain at a stained-glass window, and carries a hot water bottle, a teapot, a cage of live chickens, a ukulele and a selection of good wines. When Grand Fenwick's spacemen get to the moon just ahead of the Americans and Russians, they plant their flag, turn to the arrivals, and say: "Oh, good evening there. Grand Fenwick welcomes...
...Great Heron islands of this world have been doomed so long now that nobody, least of all fond Author Stevenson, can take them seriously. But as resident Prospero to a tempest in a teapot, he obviously could not end on a dying fall. To no one's surprise. McKinney, bulldozers and all, never gets to make the island into a museum. Stevenson has neatly tended to that himself...