Word: teapots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moldy Chestnuts Sirs: In TIME, July 15, relative to the political tempest in a teapot in the Virgin Islands, you say: ''Prohibition had ruined the Islanders- by destroying their chief means of livelihood, the manufacture of rum." This is one of the several moldy chestnuts over which every weekending special correspondent who ever visited these Islands smacks his lips, totally ignorant that the kernel carries within it a crawly worm of error. He has read what the next preceding correspondent said and he repeats it to show what a thorough study he has made of the economic conditions...
...might be the leader whom Republicans desired. Was he not, they asked, only 60, a good age for a candidate? Had this Philadelphia lawyer not received the cachet of approval from Presidents Coolidge and Hoover? Had he not struck up a fine friendship with the Press while prosecuting the Teapot Dome oil cases? Had he not voted with the Supreme Court's liberals in nine out of 13 5-to-4 decisions, voted with the conservatives the four remaining times? A sound political balance. Republicans told one another, a candidate who should be kept in mind...
...foggy streets and captious husbands. Two noble ladies have been corralled to join them at the castle and share expenses. When the eager housewives arrive, the gentry are already firmly ensconced in the most desirable rooms. Jessie Ralph, as the determined old dowager, keeps a watchful grip on the teapot of hospitality, so that the suburbanites, far from playing hostess, must meekly pass their cups...
With an abundance of verbal wisteria, April works its spell upon them all. The firm hand on the teapot relaxes. As the moon swings to the full, Miss Harding's luscious speeches come to ripe fruit. Just as the air is about to be like wine tonight, the castle menage, an enchanting crew of Italian peasants, bustle on the scene. It is a real pleasure to watch them become completely disrupted over the performance of a sinister English rite-the hot bath. Moments like this are heightened by handsome sets and adroit low-key photography. But alas, the story creaks...
...Angeles lawyer named Martineau was made a Special Assistant U. S. Attorney General and summoned to Washington. The Department of Interior's much-publicized Investigator Louis R. Glavis was once more in the spotlight. It was darkly hinted that revelations would be more scandalous than anything since Teapot Dome. Attorney General Cummings and Secretary Ickes conferred with the President. A Federal board was hastily announced to issue ''tenders" without which not a drop of East Texas oil could be accepted for shipment in interstate commerce. And. as the Washington marching and countermarching continued, newshawks were informed last...