Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Breaking his custom of lunching from a tray at his office desk. President Roosevelt went to the White House dining room one noon last week to eat a 7-) cent meal. The menu: stuffed hard-boiled eggs with tomato sauce, mashed potatoes, bread, prune pudding, coffee. He cleaned his plate. The luncheon was Mrs. Roosevelt's experiment with White House economy, to be served only to members of the family...
...famed British trainer and oldtime jockey, the only man alive who has won the Grand National thrice, to start a stable of steeplechasers for him at Wantage, England. They almost won the Grand National on their first try but Easter Hero, leading a record field of 66, twisted a plate (which now hangs on the door of his stall at Langollen), limped home second. In the U. S., Jock Whitney began to build his string after his marriage to utterly horsy Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus of Philadelphia two years ago. At "Langollen" (near Upperville, Va.), capital of the Jock Whitneys...
...American exhibition in galleries four and five, the silver is important because the pieces were given to the University in the early eighteenth century by students who wished to be Fellow Commoners. To become one, he had simply to present plate to the University, and then he could wear lace in his hat, and did not have to do fag duty for the upperclassmen. The portraits on display, which are of the same period, represent people once closely connected with the University, such as Nicholas Boylston, professor of Rhetoric, after whom is named the professorship the Hall, and the street...
...writing. They describe dangerous rapid-shooting and unruly pony caravans in terse language. Consequently, such light touches as the doctor's delight in finding a native with a rare skin disease, the rooster imitating a missionary who disturbed the natives, and the pet gibbon who juggled a Tang Dynasty plate without smashing it come as high spots in the story...
...Manhattan, the manager of the Hotel Commodore sent a bellhop to a nearby church to exchange bills for silver from the collection plate. A clerk in a Schulte cigar store said he had enough change for a week. ''But, for God's sake don't mention it. . . . You'll have all the other Schulte managers sending for it." Rich folk entered automats, got 20 nickels, ate nothing. Change was plentiful in the subways. "We're taking the place of them banksters," boasted an Interborough boothman...