Word: platter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...base of course. Then came the first of two wild pitches, but Eckenroth's throw to Wallace was in time to catch Barrett coming home. On the next wild heave, which Wallace threw soon afterwards, they weren't quickly enough to nab Duzukola before he could cross the platter...
...blaspheming the classics with arrangements too torrid for laymen's ears. One suitably muggy morning last week, Brick's boys cut their first commercial discs, "a blues, a mood and two jumpers"-which the Hot Record Society, purveyors of connoisseur's jazz, will market to hot platter "bugs...
...appearance recalled a memorable prewar performance of the same opera when a bull, led on stage for the Triumphal March, committed a nuisance downstage center. In subsequent performances, an extra bearing a silver platter was assigned to follow the bull...
...minute he had, the bosses of all parties, sniffing the winds of power, put on brass-knuckle fights to pick their candidates. Democrats, with a handsome candidate handed them on a platter, roiled and boiled for weeks before they finally chose him: Brooklyn's District Attorney William O'Dwyer, onetime cop, hod carrier, onetime student for the priesthood, an ex-brigadier general, and the man who broke up Brooklyn's Murder...
...This [year] Mama Lisanti didn't tell a single judge what she thought of him, although, Heavings knows, some of the upstarts need to be told off occasionally. . . . This time, there was nothing that could be done about it. The medal was Lois's on a platinum platter. . . . Mama Lisanti was present yesterday to see Lois receive tardy recognition for her superb horsemanship...