Word: plate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also fishing rods, flies, the acceptance speech (for further reworking) and a batch of "crank" letters. The latter amuse the Nominee. One man begged a new set of false teeth, which reminded the Nominee of a cheerer at the Hoover reception last month in Evanston, Ill., who lost his "plate" at the height of the excitement and had to scramble for it in full view of all. To avoid ostentation and accidents, the vacation motorcade was strung out in pairs of cars or singly. The five-day itinerary was Palo Alto to Bull Flat in the Eel River Valley...
Striding into the restaurant La Bombilla, General Zertuche proceeded to reconstruct the crime. By his stern order not so much as a plate or saucer had been moved. There was the table at which Mexico's one-armed hero had sat down to luncheon, beaming and bowing amid plaudits. Next to his blood-stained bullet-riddled chair was that upon which had sat Governor Aaron Saenz of Nuevo Leon, conversing jovially with Obregon...
...much weight, rode his thoroughbreds against gentlemen who knew him too well not to pull their mounts when they galloped into the stretch. Last week, for the first time in a century, a prince of England rode to the barrier for a regular race,* the Wallop Selling Plate, one mile, for amateur jockeys...
William B. Leeds, tin-plate tycoon, hopped into his $75,000 speedboat, Fan Tail, with famed Actress Adele Astaire (Funny Face). Giving the crank a swift turn, he caused the gasoline seepage to burst into a fan of flame. The actress, her dress ablaze, fell to the floor. Leeds grabbed her, lugged her to the dock; then he pushed the Fan Tail into the harbor where it soon exploded and sank. On the; dock watching this performance was Mrs. William B. Leeds, onetime Princess Xenia of Greece, and Fred Astaire, brother to Adele. With their help, William B. Leeds, though...
Their tempers were not improved by word of the I. C. C.'s decision to allow the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway to build 38 miles of new line from Cochran's Mill (Pa.) to Connellsville (Pa.), over the protest of competing lines, Pennsylvania, Nickel Plate, Baltimore and Ohio, Wheeling and Lake Erie...