Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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False Impressions. In Kansas City, Mo., Gladys Wedding laughed at a movie with such hearty abandon that she had to hustled to a hospital to get her tongue disentangled from her upper plate. Near harlevoix, Mich., Walter Springer, caught in an auto collision while his teeth were Darked in his shirt pocket, was treated for a nasty bite on the chest...
...Hothouse. The Norwegians wanted textiles, offered timber and wood pulp in exchange. Belgium wanted wheat for plate glass. Italy wanted metals for fruit and human labor. Every morning a truck delivered to the economists more than half a ton of paper which by nightfall was covered with figures and graphs recording Europe's needs and resources. In the glass-topped Grand Palais, which looked and felt like a hothouse, electric fans set small siroccos swirling over the delegates' heads. The temperature neared 100° F. Sighed a policeman: "It sure takes guts to work in there...
...London, the King-Emperor became plain George VI, King of Pakistan and of India (just as he is King of Canada and other dominions beyond the seas). Workmen took down the bronze plate in Whitehall, reading "India Office," replaced it with a painted wooden sign reading "Commonwealth Relations Office...
...baseball's No. 1 cap-straightener and head-rubber at the plate, Harry is known as "Harry the Hat" (not to be confused with the Cards' "Harry the Cat" Brecheen). He thinks his hitting this year is due partly to being an everyday player, partly to some advice about his batting stance from brother Dixie (when they meet around the circuit, they usually discuss their Alabama hardware business). One of Harry's neatest tricks this year has been hitting a solid .438 in four games against Cincinnati's sensational, 16-straight Pitcher Ewell Blackwell. Says Harry...
...bits of clipped hair; and swinging "rumble seats" attached to the customers' chairs on which the barbers sat while clipping. On request, porters wheeled carts loaded with tonic bottles from chair to chair. A phonograph played hit tunes; portable telephones could be plugged in anywhere. Just inside the plate-glass doors, Oakley proudly flicked the switches of an intercommunication system through which he could converse with the occupant of any chair...