Word: platter
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...entreaties to Herod for the prophet's head brutal and wanton. At the cistern during Jochanaan's execution (unlike Mary Garden in the same role) she was all animal thirsting for blood, listening for death struggle sounds that did not come. When she raised the cloth on the silver platter to kiss the dead lips listeners sat in amazement at the incompatible hate and golden singing. When the curtain swung down on her violent death it was a long moment before a hand was lifted in applause. Then began an ovation lasting a quarter of an hour with repeated curtain...
...Grace, drowsing in her kennel at Hayneville, Ala., last week might have been dreaming with a dog's sharp reminiscence of the end of that three hour run; she might have been wondering whether the time had not come for her handler to bring her a platter of lean, raw meat; or she might have guessed, from the smell of the pine crate that was almost overpowering in her infinitely acute nostrils, that she was soon to make another trip to Grand Junction where, on March 5, she must defend her title in the National Championship Bird Dog Trials...
...Commissioner," said burglarious Ibrahim, "kept my body without nourishment and my soul in torment for five days. On the sixth he called me into his office. On the table was a platter of tasty chicken with rice, a creamy dessert and a dish of applesauce. All of these things were to be mine if I would make a complete confession. Because of my hunger I told him a lot of things that were not true...