Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred J. Noonan, lost in the Pacific since July 2, 1937. Mrs. Morgan's dreams: Earhart and Noonan are alive on a densely thicketed four-acre island; her hair "has grown long and waves in the breeze"; she cooks over a clay pot supported by part of her plane's framework, invariably asks Mrs. Morgan "to come closer and I'll explain everything." At that point, the dreams stop. Said Seer Morgan: "I was never particularly interested in Amelia Earhart...
...Jeannette, Pa., a gun club got ready to pot any Nazi parachutists descending from the skies; the Pennsylvania legislature studied ways to protect industrial plants from air raids; in Brooklyn a war-crazed British sailor danced despairingly on a high window ledge; in Manhattan and Seattle, two men killed themselves because of news; in Kirkland, Wash. a lady letter-writer noted approvingly that a coffee shop had changed "hamburger" on the menu to "liberty steak...
...staring wall-eyed from weather-grey shacks; from shacks no better, poor whites whose grand pappies saw the Confederates run the Yanks off this same land; a new oil find, 30 miles south of prosperous Alexandria; cotton, corn, potatoes, rice where cane grew until Louisiana sugar prices went to pot. Yellow signs reading: TROOPS, KEEP OUT hung on fence posts and trees. These signs marked farms whose owners had refused the Army permission to cross their land. One officer, seeking such permission before the troops arrived, had the tallest yarn of the maneuvers. Turned down by a backwoods slattern...
...pitiful sight of Hollywood attempting a classic of character and turning out a turgid Grade B pot-boiler is now on view for the second week at the Keith Memorial in "Primrose Path." Unoriginal in conception, dull--often interminable--in pace and direction, it tells the story of a sweet young thing (Ginger Rogers) caught in the sordid atmosphere created by a prostitute-mother, a constantly drunken father, and an incredibly cruel grandmother. Falling in love with Joel McCrea because he nearly kills her by reckless driving, she conceals her true identity, has the usual misunderstandings, and emerges happy ever...
...unpaid, disgruntled Republican workers last week went a reassuring whisper from the offices of Mr. Cooke: the pot was being saved for the November attack on the New Deal, would be all the bigger then. After all, the nomination of bald, affable Mr. Cooke for U. S. Senator was a cinch (result: Cooke, around 650,000; Albert H. Ladner, of Philadelphia, about...