Word: platt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...returning many an evening worn out to his small suite-in Tonopah's five-story brick Mizpah Hotel. Four days before Election he was taken to the Washoe General Hospital, on Reno's outskirts. On Nov. 5 he was reelected, by 6,000 votes, over Republican Samuel Platt. But Key Pittman was dying. His heart was feeble. An oxygen tent kept life in him for several hours. Just after midnight, as Sunday began, he died...
...devil-take-the-hindmost sea-battles, the same villainous intrigue, but fortunately a little less slush than the Flynn-Marshall combine dished out. Victor Mature, the anthropoid from "One Million B. C." and Bruce Cabot spend most of the picture fighting like mad over a little minx named Losise Platt. Opinions differ as to whether Miss Platt is worth fighting over, but she can certainly...
...speakers for the Willkieites will be Herbert Church, Harry N. Platt, George A. Saxton, and Robert S. Sturgis, while the Rooseveltians will have Charles W. Young and Thomas S. Kuhn...
...Fredrick B. Harvey, Jr. Pussy Cassidy, Easton, Md. William H. Haskell Virginia Grant, Weston Abram W. Hatcher Margaret Gaft, Cambridge Robert A. Hawkins Virginia Garland, Mt. Ida Peter J. Hearst Gretchen Thannhauser, Brookline Richard Henry, Jr. Martha Elliott, Wellesley Carl M. Herbert, Jr. Ann Whitter, Cambridge Richard Herr Posy Platt, Wellesley Thomas A. J. Herzford Gay Crosby, Wellesley Henry R. Heyburn Phoebe Rotch, Boston John W. Hird, II Patricia German Richard A. Hirschfield Betty Johnson, Marblehead William A. Hoftyzer Jo Parrish, Smith Robert H. Hoskins Marguerite Allen, Wheelock William K. Humphrey Juliet Crowder, Wellesley Robert T. Hurley Phebe Perry, Vassar...
...nine years Luxembourg's best friend-in-residence has been the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, George Platt Waller, who bestows on the dynasties of Central Europe that tender, familiar worship that the true Southern aristocrat can give only to royal families and his own. Visiting U. S. journalists address him as "Mr. Minister," enjoy equally his Martinis and his conversation. He likes to have them in Luxembourg because, if the Grand Duchy is invaded again, he wants neutral witnesses of her rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick...