Word: teapots
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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...
...many an observer, first U. S. debates about the war were as big a scandal as Teapot Dome. A dead-centre discussion in which debaters were alternately flogged as Get-inners and Stay-outers, it raged and enraged as long as the Neutrality Bill was being debated, permitted no talk of programs. Last week at the Academy of Political Science, Thomas Lament spoke to 1,000 members on war's effects on U. S. economy, made it clear that, whether or not U. S. citizens agreed or disagreed with his proposals, the Get-in-or-Stay-out-theory...
...farmers took in $990,000,000 gross income from chicken and eggs. Most of it went into the farmer's wife's china teapot...