Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British vice consul at Baltimore, she suddenly gave her motto a new focus. From then on she resisted her Protestant upbringing and Michael. It is this part of the story which is enough to scare male readers about literate wives and mistresses-a recital of love affairs, bedroom lyricism, plate throwing, tongue lashings, a self-righteous exposure of everything from Michael's lack of ambition to his dirty hairbrushes...
...glass of a shop window. And because one offers a study of people long dead is no reason why that glass should be the knobbly 'bottle' kind which hasty judgment might deem more seemly." Under close examination Miss Lofts's glass proves to be fairly clear plate, not too marred by fingerprints...
WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt's attack on "tweedle-dum" Democrats, delivered at the $100-a-plate Jackson Day Dinner last night, infuriated party conservatives who predicted tonight, that it will increase and solidify Congressional opposition to drastic New Deal reforms...
Married. Gloria Baker, 19, No. 1 café-society glamor girl of 1937*. half-sister of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, heiress to $10,000,000 (Bromo-Seltzer); and Henry J. ("Bob") Topping Jr., 24, Manhattan socialite and heir to $9,000,000 (tin-plate); in Palm Beach. A few days previously Topping was divorced by his first wife, Glamor Girl Jayne Dunham Shadduck Kirkland Topping, who got a settlement reputed...
...powerful atom-smasher, one of the two biggest in the world. The other is being readied at East Pittsburgh by Westinghouse Electric. Last week, after years of planning and construction, the Carnegie monster started its first test runs, hurling streams of protons (nuclei of hydrogen atoms) into a quartz plate at 5,000,000 volts...