Word: plat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other representatives, judges, comptrollers, etc., important though they may be in the discharge of Democracy's functions, are merely part of the ticket and make the ballot look like part of the telephone directory. The Standard Bearers have no flags to wave, but their party gives them a "plat- form" ingeniously constructed of sagging, soft "planks." For at least a month the Standard Bearers are supposed to do a graceful jig on these planks. Then comes election day, and the panting dancers are either governors and senators, or lame ducks...
...first crew, which in all probability will remain intact for the rest of the season, is boated as follows: Stroke, Captain Winthrop; 7, Leavitt; 6, Darlington, 5. Plat; 4, Hubbard; 3, Saltonstall; 2, Ames; bow, Barton; coxswain, Beer...
...also an Assistant Attorney General in the Department oi Justice. Sometimes she has been called "the inevitable Mrs. Wilie-brandt" because she speaks at so many conventions of women's organizations. But it is not her own love of speechmaking and prominence which brings her so often to the plat- form. She is invited there because she is one of the few women who occupies a public position of impor-tance-and occupies it capably...
...glory of the Methodist Parsonage has been its sons and daughters. Our sons have sat in Presidents' chairs.* We dare not deny to women ministers the high order of matrimony." The first result of the Gray report was uproar. One Madeline Southard of Winfield, Kan., dashed to the plat form and shook her fist in Bishop Bristol's face. But the report was sustained by a decisive majority. It gives women the right to preach, to baptize, but not to act as shepherdesses of the flock. Antifeminists had a strong ally in Rev. Jashwant Chitamber who pointed out that...
...believes in his books; but he does not expect you to believe in them. If you do, he is glad. If you do not? well, then, there will always be another. Walpols is tall, broad-shouldered, practically always smiling. He has a broad fore head, He wears glasses. His plat form manner is excellent, and he speaks as he writes ? with care and distinction...