Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cornelius McGillicuddy, 81, from East Brookfield, Mass. Connie Mack had finished a half-century of big-league baseball management (Pittsburgh, three years; Milwaukee, four years; the Philadelphia Athletics, 43 years).* A jazz band let go, Abbott & Costello clowned. Master of Ceremonies Ted Husing stepped to the microphone near home plate to read a telegram from Franklin Delano Roosevelt: ". . . my sincere and best wishes on your Golden Jubilee . . . may your score card continue to wave from the dugout...
Whatta Club. As he strode, thin and vigorous, toward home plate, the crowd rose to its feet. His hair was slicked down, he looked almost boyish in his dark brown Sunday suit and sport shoes. Most of those present expected him to begin with his usual "My gracious!" or "By golly!" But his thanks were formal...
...game is the story of the fourth inning. Leading 4 to 1 as a result of sloppy Tufts fielding, the Crimson really teed off in the last of the fourth. Two were out when the fireworks started, but before the smoke had cleared eight Harvard men had crossed the plate and the ball game was salted away...
Noss would also discard the Western collection plate, substitute a wooden box at the door. Says he: "The Japanese do not have our matter-of-fact attitude to ward money. For example, to give a tip to a hotel maid by handing her the cold and bare coins is to show one's lack of breeding; one will wrap the money in clean white paper, and if possible put this little parcel on a tray. Perhaps the Christian people are used to it now, but lifting the offering to the sound of clinking and jingling coins is often quite...
...were down when Rosenman began by reminding Wallace that both he and Harold thought he was a great man; that he had done a great job in many ways. The Vice President, who is shrewd as well as stubborn, knew what was coming. Shyly he looked down at his plate. But Henry, said Sammy, in effect, there's an awful lot of opposition to you, and well, it looks now as though you might be something of a political liability to the President...