Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neutral lavendar was the tint of table chrysanthemums for the season's second state dinner-an appropriate shade, since the guests were the diplomatic corps. The new gold plate service was used, embossed with the U. S. seal and coat of arms. Two days earlier, the President and Mrs. Coolidge had dined with Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg at their home on 19th Street. There they chatted at table with General Pershing, Princess Cantacuzene, other agreeable and prominent people, including Lawyer and Mrs. Silas Hardy Strawn, of Chicago...
...carpenter-Gothic' of 1845 through Victorian of that ilk, to the most modern and competent recasting of ancient forms and restored ideals . . . delicate little Georgian ghosts, shrinking in their unpremeditated contact with Babylonian skyscrapers that poise their towering masses of plausible masonry on an unconvincing substructure of plate glass. And it is all contemporary . . . while it is all wildly and improbably different...
...determine the structure of the atom by means of X-ray spectra. A current of tremendous voliage is projected into a Roentgen tube arranged in such a way that the X-ray generated will be passed through a diamond prism. The resulting spectrum is caught on a photographic plate...
...esteem." Among those seated at the guest table was Mr. C. C. Pyle--now commonly designated in the news columns as "Cold Cash" Pyle whom the redoubtable "Red," Grange insisted on having at his side. As a matter of fact, various sport promoters helped to promote this $10-a-plate banquet by taking tickets therefor...
...clock this morning in Harvard 2, Professor Haring will speak on the Spaniards on the River Plate, in his course History...