Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government-building cafeterias (the Bureau of Printing & Engraving) was denounced as "horribly unhealthy." Specific gripes in the complaint of the United Federal Workers of America (C.I.O.): a mouse in the soup container, worms cooked in greens, a caterpillar in the gingerbread, chewing gum on a pie plate, fish scales in the soup, improperly washed china...
...year at Cambridge University, as midnight tolled, he sprinted around the "Great Court" of Trinity College (374⅔ yds.) before Trinity's clock finished chiming the hour. Next year at Amsterdam he won the Olympic 400-meter hurdles. Prewar voyagers on the Queen Mary could view a brass plate on the promenade deck recording Lord Burghley's dash around the quarter-mile deck in full evening dress-time: 58 sec. In 1931 he stood as a Conservative, was elected to the House of Commons. In 1932 he went to Los Angeles as captain of the British Olympic Track...
...none more fanatic, long ago gave Ebbets Field a charm of its own. Branch Rickey, who became president of the Brooklyn club last winter, has made it over into vendetta alley. Hawkeyes from the stands size up each Rickey move; hawkeyes from Rickey's aerie perched over home plate size up every reflex in the stands. There is plenty for each side...
Gloria Swanson, No. 1 fashion plate among the silent cinema sirens, gave Interviewer Elsa Maxwell her considered opinion on the reason she had always had to play seductresses: "Because I was quiet, people always thought I knew more about life and love than...
...world." He celebrated with a farewell bombing, climbed through the clouds reciting poetry in time with the engine. "To the verses of 'Gunga Din' I dropped my first bomb ... on the docks of Homalin. ... I finished my ammunition by strafing the main street of [Lashio] . . . saw two plate-glass windows spatter . . . like artificial snow from a Christmas tree, and I laughed hysterically as two figures ran from a pagoda. . . . I landed back home tired and happy...