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...seek another in the building of the Panama Canal but, failing that, returned obscurely to Yale for his degree. He became a newsgatherer first in New Haven, later elsewhere. But in streetcars and on commuting trains he appeased something that was gnawing within him by writing fiction, mostly pot boilers. In 1914 he published Our Mr. Wrenn, his first novel. That same year he married Grace Livingstone Hegger, wandered with her from coast to coast, getting newspaper jobs and writing novels in his spare time. During this period he published The Trail of the Hawk, The Job, The Innocents, Free...
...phrases "Listen to this. . . . Well, what happened? . . . That's history now. . . . Here's the record. . . . Here's a warm one. . . ." President Hoover was his main target. The house roared with joy when he asked: "Where are all those chickens that were to be in every pot? What became of the automobiles and the silk stockings for everybody...
...Spain. Jose Viloria, Madrid streetcar conductor, on a Sunday jaunt to suburban Moncloa, kicked about in a dirt pile on the site of a new university, found a bone, an old dirty pot. When he showed the pot and bone to university authorities, they enthusiastically called a meeting of the board of directors, engaged Professor Hugo Obermaier, archeologist of Central University, to dig more pots. On the streetcar conductor's Sunday picnic site were found coins, wooden kitchen utensils, old pottery, stone knives, a granite grinding mill, skeletons of bulls, goats, birds. Professor Obermaier reported the discoveries...
...weeks before it is to be applied. . . . Is it not better that a little child should have a good burning spank than that his body should be burned up by a conflagration or that he should be ruined for a lifetime by pulling down upon his head a pot of boiling liquid...
Sisters of the Chorus. Sophisticated Theophile Gautier once said that the only thing one could not exhibit on the stage was a pot de chambre. The chief distinction of Sisters of the Chorus, another theatrical attempt to romanticize the lives of thugs and their lady friends, is that just such a utilitarian object is within full view of about one-half of the audience, the play's humor springing largely from the fact that a bathroom opens on the principal scene. There is a good deal of tedious talk about the nefarious ethics and business conduct indigenous to "Broadway...