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...Pot, Kettle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Letters of criticism and appreciation are of great value, but when they are written just to give digs at some other reader who has written to TIME, it really does not help anybody one way or another and seems a rather childish attitude. This may sound as if the pot were calling the kettle black, but I assure you that the pot does not feel as black as the kettle looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Eventually this discreet and exceptional communication came under the piercing but kindly eye of great M. Painlevé. He studied the photograph, saw a face of rugged grandeur. He read the attestations of Mme. Jacquet's poaching ways with an egg, learned that her pot au feu was delectable and sound. Finally the War Minister decided that in this instance the uncertain quantity or "X" stood for a good & honest cook. Therefore Mme. Jacquet Was appointed, last week, to the regiment at Tourelles until such time as it may be ordered upon active service. Pleased but with a sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cook | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...reason seemed simple, rational last week to citizens of Vimoutier, 35 miles south of fashionable Deauville. In their public square stood a splendid new statue, ready for unveiling, a statue of a peasant woman holding a pot of cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pearl among Cheeses | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...Watson. In Indiana, Candidate Watson & friends found a kettle as black as their pot. They found, or said they found, Will H. Hays & friends behind the Hoover candidacy there. No denial coming direct from Candidate Hoover, the Watson-Hoover battle in Indiana temporarily assumed the aspect of local gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Candidates' Row | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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