Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Harvard Advocate's Christmas present this year is an issue devoted to the poetry of Wallace Stevens, but not just to the poetry mind you, but to a pot-pourri of criticism that seems to say, "There. You're a damn fool if you don't like...
Jefferson is one of the two U. S. Presidents (the other: Lincoln) who did not claim membership in any church. But he spent his spare evenings at the White House and Monticello with paste pot and shears, clipping and collating Greek, Latin, French and English Bibles in parallel columns. Fear of being "exposed to the malignant perversions of those who make every word from me a text for new misrepresentations and calumnies" kept him from ever publishing it. The Government later bought the manuscript from his family, placed it in the Smithsonian, where it still remains...
...Best chance a rifleman has against tanks is to draw a bead on an open turret, fire port, pot driver or gunner. (More common will be the officially sanctioned practice of seeking the nearest ditch...
...escort, the American went aloft, was churning peacefully over the countryside when a group of uninvited Messerschmitts dropped in for a dog fight. The R. A. F. flew off to fight. In the interests of neutrality, the lone American streaked for the field, was gleefully pursued by a pot-hunting Nazi. When the bullets began to zip past him, the American abandoned neutrality, flipped over his plane, got the Nazi in his sight, pressed the Spitfire's gun button, bagging one Messerschmitt fighter for the armed forces...
...pictures that are now on their way. Paramount put Artie Shaw into Second Chorus, Orrin Tucker (and Bonnie Baker) into You're the One, expects to start Las Vegas Nights with Tommy Dorsey by month's end; Jimmy Roosevelt's Globe Productions hired Horace Heidt for Pot O' Gold. R. K. O., not to be outdone at its own game, has already completed Let's Make Music starring Bob Crosby and his Bob Cats, plans another Kay Kyser for February...