Word: plate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prosecutor unpleasantly. "The usual remedy in such cases ... is strangulation." Everything was ready for the necktie-party, when Kai Lung, previously advised by the Golden Mouse, began to spill a Sheherazade to the noble Mandarin, his initial opus being The Story of Wong Ts'in and the Willow Plate Embellishment. By the time the story was ended it was, of course, too late in the day to execute Kai Lung-and so the days went on-in spite of the degraded persistence of the effete Ming-Shu, Kai Lung always managed to turn aside with a novelette...
...wonder if it would work out. . . . Suppose the pitcher passes a man. It is agreed, to begin with, that every player ought to have the same chance at the bat. Why couldn't another man be put on first to run for him while he stays at the plate...
...this problem but others involving much mystery and confusion. The best thing of its kind since The Red House Mystery. MY FRIEND FROM LIMOUSIN−Jean Giraudoux−Harper ($2.00). Awarded the Prix Balzac for 1922, this highly original and satiric novel, should prove a most acceptable literary plate of anchovy sandwiches for those who like a certain fantastic grace and suppleness in their reading matter. The plot−involving a Frenchman picked up on the battlefield, who suffers complete loss of memory, recovers in a German hospital, is mistaken for a German and becomes a leader of post...
...Wyman Jr. 23 and F. S. Pollak '23 led the batting; others who starred for the league team were H. J. Friendly '23 behind the home plate, and G. G. Dolphin '24, who substituted for C. L. Short '23 at short. J. J. Sack '23 played well at first, while M. W. Self '23 and T. Dreier '23 were the outstanding figures in the outfield. M. A. Best '23 acted as umpire...
...Blue took an early lead, however, which it steadily maintained throughout the contest. As if the 6 to 2 margin was not enough to satisfy the visitors, in the first of the sixth, they slugged the ball to all corners of the diamond and crossed the plate for nine runs before the inning dragged to a close