Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prestige item on the scales of conspicuous consumption, a place swimming pools used to hold before everybody had one. Luxury Lavatorist Sherle Wagner of Manhattan's 57th Street is selling baroque swans, dolphins, Cupids and sea horses for spouts and faucet handles as fast as he can gold-plate them, at $129.50 to $800 a set. Cut crystal is in, too, and the most sophisticated of all is pewter with gold decoration. "And, of course, marble like mad," says Wagner. "We just finished a lovely bathroom-dressing room for one of our clients. Cost? Oh, about...
...Times at Breakfast. Next morning during breakfast with Rose he became more suspicious when his New York Times was not beside his plate. During his usual wading in the swimming pool, he failed to respond to the forced family pleasantries. After Joe had changed clothes, Teddy and Eunice Shriver joined their father in his bedroom. When he asked to turn on the television set, Teddy stalled, said it did not work. Old Joe pointed to the unplugged power cord. Teddy reluctantly inserted it-but as the screen began to flicker on, he yanked the cord out again. Then he told...
...will commence the most extensive renovation program it has undertaken since the building became a movie theatre in 1953. The Brattle management last night asured "patrons and fans of the 100-year-old building that it does not plan to turn it into a cold, glossy modern structure of plate glass and steel, but will retain the building's old-fashioned charm...
...also cited last spring's discovery of inferior paint in license plate production as an example of the low standard of public efficiency...
Some girls think that the mental emptiness caused by indecision or procrastination lies at the root of the problem. Just as their thoughts are paralyzed, so their hands become paralyzed in a mechanical gesture from plate to mouth. Once the boyfriend has been broken up with or snared, the paper begun, the field of concentration chosen, or the destination reached, food becomes unnecessary...