Word: spode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Darwin League. He makes fiery speeches in favor of woman suffrage ("Women seem to be people-let them vote"). He goes lolly-gagging about the landscape in an avant-garde motorcar known as a Firestone Columbus. And at every opportunity he comes crashing down, and damn the Spode, on the side of lip rouge and attached collars...
...JUDSON SPODE Madison...
...dozen revues--the parody of famous playwrights' styles. Even the spectacle of Miss Davis as a hillbilly crone and a lethargic slattern in gym shoes can't offset a script which comes up with a little horror like Flying Saucers, featuring a trio of spacemen (Meissen, Delit, and Spode) wearing tea cups...
...craftsman, he considers big-wheel potters like Spode and Wedgwood pathetically pachydermatous. They have "banalized the art," he says, by mass-producing a few popular designs...