Word: platter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toss the baton to Farley himself at convention time. Washington New Dealers-who want no part of Farley or a Farley lieutenant-made sweet cooing sounds to statesmanlike Owen D. Young, former General Electric board chairman, who might be persuaded to run if the nomination came on a dignified platter...
...greatest upset apple-cart from the Harvard point of view was John Bonner's surprising win in the discus, the last event which decided the meet. Big Jack, who had never topped 142 feet in competition before, came through in fine style as he heaved the platter a nifty 153 feet, five inches, to take the event, and clinch the laurels for the team. His showing was the best example all afternoon of Jaakko's pre-meet prediction and generalization that "the harder the competition, the harder they will fight...
World War I moppets rallied to the defense of freedom by planting Victory Gardens and licking their platters clean. This year the Jack Spratlike platter came back. In Glencoe, Ill., Margot, 5, and John Chinnock, 7, with their father, formed the Clean Plate Club, pledged themselves always to "finish all the food on my plate and drink all of my milk, unless excused . . . until Uncle Sam has licked the Japs and Hitler. . . ." Penalty for failure: "I will turn in my button." Club records last week showed only one recalcitrant among 200 members: five-year-old Betsy Brown, who refused...
...Gates, cats and ickies were hurt good. Longhairs took it on the puss, too. And it was a slight case of murder to the whole waxing biz. What happened was this: WPB bopped civilian use of shellac*by 70%, and shellac is the big item (15-25%) of each platter. Angle for the stab: shellac comes from India, which seems to be in quite a jam right now. Not only that, but shellac is hot stuff in war stuff over here. Anyway, this means a cut in rug-cutting, and no good news for highbrows, either. Needle-nuts can play...
...more & more United Nations ships go to the bottom, food is becoming the No.1 problem on the British home front. Last week the London Daily Herald burst out with a "Lick That Platter Clean" campaign. "The time has come," said the Herald, "when we must clean our plates with bread and send nothing back to the kitchen. . . . Jam, marmalade and all preserves must be dropped on to the food and never on to the plate...