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...that's lost her sex appeal and is reckless. . . . When an old sow has produced ten or twelve pigs, in two or three weeks one or two or three of them start to go back until finally when weaning time comes, they're curly pot-bellied runts. Why? Because these runts were compelled by their larger and huskier brothers and sisters to eat at the rear end of the lunch counter. That's the trouble with American agriculture. For twelve long years this great basic industry has been sucking the hind teat of this country of ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Runt Relief | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/29/1933 | See Source »

...Watched Pot" by "Saki" (H. H. Monroe) has been selected for presentation by the Dramatic Club on Thursday, May 4, and Friday, May 5. The play, which will be the forty-fifth production of the Club, was chosen chiefly because of its brilliant dialogue. The author, who is better known in the field of short story, has written "When William Came," Reginald and Reginald in Russia," and "The Unbelievable Bassingtons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WATCHED POT" BY SAKI DRAMATIC CLUB'S PLAY | 3/28/1933 | See Source »

...dogs can always spot such a man. When he comes to a village "whole packs of dogs shuffle after him and water him: a man like that ought to be pitied." He confesses he is fond of bear's meat himself, says he "often ate a huge pot of bear-stew at one sitting. Sometimes I ate three bears in a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Way Up Yonder | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...waken the suspicions of its devotes. But the headlines (or whatever they are called) will give away the bad news that the editing quintet, in which Ernest Boyd represented the "unknown," has passed on much of its editorial space to complete "nobodies" in the literary world, obscure amateurs and pot-boiled professionals. It was the hope of almost every original Spectator subscriber that he would receive a short-and-easy-to-read newspaper in which he would only have to read the works of well-known, well-liked authors, many of them officials of this homey paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

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