Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stillman's lips went thin with fury. She picked up a plate and flung it at a tall crank-grinder in a fantastic sweater. It landed amid the punch glasses with dreadful effect. Another plate tinkled through a window. The cameras stopped clicking but Mrs. Stillman hurled more plates, glasses, round epithets. She managed to score at least two direct hits before the intruders hurdled the table and escaped...
...York Times took an amused and friendly view, calling the photographers' retreat a "good-humored" one and the plate-throwing an imperious "bit of temperament...
Drug clerks peered out of plate glass windows. Traveling men shuffled out from hotel lobbies. Women grabbed for the newspapers, gasped, shrilled, chattered. The sidewalks were filled with agitated pedestrians fluttering scare-head newspapers under their noses...
...McGinnity, McGann, McGraw. They lost the game, 5 to 3. But the crowd of some 10,000 was not entirely displeased. The new manager and shortstop* of the Giants, John Joseph McGraw, seemed to be a fighter and a leader who knew the difference between first base and home plate. New Yorkers predicted that he would get the Giants out of the "cellar" (last place) of the National League. He failed to do so in 1902; but he put the Giants in second place in 1903 and made them pennant winners in 1904. Everyone knows the subsequent history...
...smashed a jeweler's plate glass window with a heavy hammer. Instantly a crowd of hundreds assembled, with a great uproar of shouting, thinking it was the deed of an anarchist. I ran away, to avoid violence. But the jeweler, a fleet-footed young man, ran after me and overtook me. I assumed that he meant to arrest me. But instead, he pressed into my hand a list of his other shops, saying, 'Go and do the same to all of them! It will be a splendid free advertisement...