Word: platter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway, a play that is all scorch and bite is worth reviving. Unhappily, last week's revival was more in the nature of a coffin nail. It lacked skill, perception and tension: at its best it could only serve up gall and wormwood as a kind of sizzling platter. As the wife, Mady Christians did, at any rate, sizzle now & then. As the husband, Raymond Massey merely spouted, as if announcing all the terrible things that did not seem to be happening...
This serving of true love on a technicolor platter, is just a little more than routine. Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten, though uninspired, still show a high degree of polish and workmanship. And the same can be said of Alfred Hitchcock, who directed the picture. The latter is responsible for a few deft touches, but did little else to add artistic interest...
...influential fathers. *Another group, the "Founder's Kin," long had special privileges, e.g., they could stay in Winchester until they were 25, but ultimately they became so numerous that the privileges were abolished. Unofficial test of a boy's relationship to Founder Wykeham: crashing a wooden platter down on his head. If the platter broke before the head had enough, the claim was valid...
Coar charges Congressmen $3.50 per recording. He has built up an impressive list of regular customers. Washington's Senator Harry Cain (who once pepped up some of his records with American folk songs from the Library of Congress) sends out 38 copies of his weekly platter. Pennsylvania's Ed Martin uses 74 every two weeks. Ohio's Robert Taft is good for 39 a week...
...past 6 a.m., preceded by eight bars of Dixie and a short commercial, Farm Editor Cope leaned toward a porch microphone and ad-libbed: "I never saw a prettier day . . ." By the. time his chatty half-hour broadcast was over, Cope had worked up an appetite for a heaping platter of fried eggs, sausages and hot biscuits, washed down by more coffee and bourbon. Then he settled down to write his daily newspaper column, "Channing Cope's Almanac," in the same breezy, cracker-barrel fashion in which he talks...