Word: dish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that last week developed on the U. S. investment scene, he might show President E. H. H. Simmons of New York Stock Exchange as a headwaiter of a crowded restaurant, and Chairman Charles Hamilton Sabin of the Guaranty Co. as a caterer serving with his own hands a new dish to his gabbling, gobbling customers...
...footsteps crushed its tender shoots and no motor exhaust laid a blight upon it. Not only its hardships but also its responsibilities have so increased that science must come to its aid. Last fortnight the University of Illinois announced that its scientists would work-with Erlenmeyer flask and petrie dish-on the problem of maintaining a satisfactory turf on football fields. The athletic association will make a 90-square checkerboard out of the gridiron. Running in crosswise strips will be nine different grasses, old, new, domestic, foreign. Ten strips, each treated with a different amount and combination of fertilizer, will...
...they were rapidly reading the page of a book a block wide. All week in Madison Square Garden drops fell onto coats and faces turned from side to side, from side to side, all morning, all afternoon, all night, for six days. And round the pale pine dish the riders pedaled, jammed, sprinted, drank beef juice out of paper cups, pasted their burned legs with plaster, until a gun was fired off three times and Franco Georgetti and Gerard Debaets posed for flashlights holding the big bouquets that go to the winners. They had won by a single lap after...
...people who looked at them appeared silly and ungainly, it was partly by contrast, because the paintings were neither. They are difficult paintings to write about. When Georgia O'Keeffe paints flowers, she does not paint fifty flowers stuffed into a dish. On most of her canvases there appeared one gigantic bloom, its huge feathery petals furled into some astonishing pattern of color and shade and line. A bee, busy with a paint brush, might so have reproduced the soft, enormous caves in which his pasturage is found. One of the.insects out of Henri Fabre, some thoughtful, sensitive caterpillar...
...years old at a salary of $10 weekly. Now she has $8000 a week, a police-dog, a canary, a gluttonous appetite for licorice candy, and a reputation for frail, goldenhaired beauty that has suggested, in a recent popular song, this recipe for exceptional loveliness: "Put Cleopatra into a dish, add a dash of Lillian Gish...