Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South America" on Thursdays and Mondays at 8 o'clock in the evening, beginning Thursday, November 2. The individual titles of the lectures are as follows: 1. Problems of Independence; 2. The Rise of Modern Argentina; 3. Empire and Republic in Brazil; 4. International Rivalries on the River Plate; 5. The Struggle for Democracy in Chile; 6. The Balance of Power on the Pacific; 7. Church and State in Columbia; 8. South America and the United States...
...stone-cliffed canyon of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for half a day last week. Three out of every ten New Yorkers were there, 2,000,000 strong. They fainted, they cheered, their feet hurt, their clothes got mussed. At 58th Street their sheer bulk bulged through splintering plate glass windows. The Governor's motorcycle escort rode one down. A pack of them upturned a policeman and his screaming horse. There never had been so many people gathered anywhere in the nation since Armistice Day. Nobody in town, not even the blind news dealers and the invalids and sick...
...club was giving a Saturday night charity show at $6.60 per plate. Some 600 guests attended, among them Senator Long. His host was Songwriter Gene Buck. The Senator had been drinking before he arrived at the club. His strident voice rang out louder than usual as he barged around among the other diners. He sat down with strangers, made himself objectionable with vulgar greetings. Spotting a plump girl with a full plate before her, he marched to her table, snatched the plate from her, yapped: "You're too fat already. I'll eat this." He danced just once...
...emerge national wrecks, and revolution will break out in both countries. Positively the last Great War (here Author Wells grows optimistic again) will begin in 1940, will peter out in pestilence, famine, revolution and exhaustion ten years later. Its immediate cause: a Polish Jew with an ill-fitting dental plate. A passenger on a crowded train halted in Danzig station, he modestly turns his face to the window to struggle with the refractory plate. His facial contortions are misinterpreted by a hot-headed Nazi on the platform ... an argu- ment . . . the Nazi shoots the Jew . . . the war-dogs are slipped...
Last week, at the end of the first inning of a Yankee game with the St. Louis Browns, the players of both teams crowded around home plate while the editor of The Sporting News presented Gehrig with a silver statue inscribed with his record. Said Gehrig, showing signs of strain and fatigue: "It looks as though Miller Huggins gave me rather steady employment at that." Going back to work, the Yankees played like champions for an inning or two, then lost the game, 7-6, despite Babe Ruth's 27th home run of the season. Gehrig made two hits...