As an instructor in the University he not only received a small salary which relieved him, in a measure, from the grinding necessity of painting pot-boilers, but he had assigned to him spacious rooms in the building on Washington Square, which he could utilize not only as studio and living apartments, but as a workshop.

These questions would fling him back on the thought of his projected book, which was, after all, to be what the masterpieces of literature had mostly beena pot-boiler.

" At last, she nagged him into her theory, although he fairly loathed writing a pot-boiler, and considered it the purest dishonesty.

and I left him vigorously painting pot-boilers.

To taste love, to use the great passion of sex is on a par with the exploitation of genius on a series of "pot-boilers.

POTTERIES, THE, a district in North Staffordshire, 9 m. long by 3 broad, the centre of the earthenware manufacture of England; it includes Hanley, Burslem, Stoke-upon-Trent, &c. POT-WALLOPERS (i. e. Pot-boilers), a popular name given prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 to a class of electors in a borough who claimed the right to vote on the ground of boiling a pot within its limits for six months.