Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student production of Chip the Miner's Daughter, where, as the hero, he shouted: "What ho! The villain steals the gold!" then was slugged by the villain with a bag filled with nuts, bolts and nails. Surgeons had to repair his fractured skull by installing a metal plate above his right eye. Met and married, in 1931, a fellow journalism student, Gladys Hope Dowd. They have four adopted children, including two World War II war orphans (one French, one German...
...steel. Messire Olivier de la Marche, Captain of the Guards to Charles the Bold, wrote in its praise: "Steel is the most noble metal-of it one makes war harnesses, swords, daggers and other glaives by means of which-valor is shown by enemy against enemy." The tough steel plate gave helmsmiths and armorers a far harder task than was faced by earlier artisans, who worked in iron and bronze. But medieval and Renaissance craftsmen achieved results that for pure, functional beauty rank with the most remarkable workmanship ever done in metal...
Cupids for Parade. For victory pageants, knights went all out for display, borrowing the services of such artists as Holbein, Dtirer. Leonardo da Vinci and Cellini for helmet designs and devices that were etched, gilded, embossed and damascened on the steel plate. The best Florentine painters of the day were called on to decorate ceremonial shields and banners. So dazzling were the results that one of Milan's great armorers, Tomaso Missaglia, was not only knighted but exempted from all taxes as well. Such splendid casques as Milan's other great armorer, Philip de Negroli, made for France...
...just that it's tough to play catch when nobody's around. I threw to that mattress for fun. I never thought about control at all. It just never entered my mind that the purpose of pitching wasn't to get the ball over the plate...
...Elderly people do not go to church as often as young people because they cannot afford the collection plate, reported Long Beach (Calif.) Sociologist George M. Logan after querying 30,000 elderly persons. "More than half reported attending church less frequently than they did ten years ago. Transportation difficulties and low income combined with social pressure for financial support of the churches have offset attendance...