Word: platter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mitchell's head finally got on the platter, neither President Bowman nor Dr. Mitchell had publicly explained by last week, when 150 bigwigs from the Hopkins faculty and Maryland's public life (including Johns Hopkins' famed Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr) gathered at a dinner to praise Dr. Mitchell, speak guardedly of "loss of tolerance" at the University. But to friends Broadus Mitchell explained privately: "The thing got to the pass where resignation was the only course. Bowman was too protesting about his tolerance-and then insulted...
...hold up the Hopkins' falling prestige. But after a violent quarrel with Dr. Mitchell, President Bowman once confided to students: "No mother hen is more solicitous of her chicks than I am of Broadus. Why, there are men downtown who would like to see his head on a platter...
...CRIMSON hurler, Allen Snyder, proved himself a fine winner, purposely raising his beer can in nonchalant salute as he wafted a couple of easy ones over the platter, permitting the embarrassed Funnymen to score two men. "It's just to keep the ivy on the tradition," said...
...object must have a use before it can be considered beautiful and the greater degree of utility it has, the more beautiful it is. But art is only useful when it can become assimilated into the daily life of a person, when it can be taken from its silver platter and caten without the aid of knife and fork. And the only way in which any work of art is able to fulfill its function in society (and it does have a function) is by being placed where people gather to sit naturally, smoke, and talk in a normal...
...this point Sam Merrill, Jayvee shortstop, brought along as utility infielder, connected with a line single to send the winning runs rattling across the platter. Singles by Healey, Johns, Lupien and Hoye, combined with another Gannett double and a free ticket to Grondahl, completed the rout...