Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept on marching, out of Los Angeles. Seattle had him for a while, and other towns in the Northwest. Four years ago he turned up in Oroville, Calif., an old mining town, a little whiter, a little scrawnier and no longer plain John Cudney. He was now Brother Isaiah, 88th & last incarnation of the prophet Isaiah. On a rocky hillside he built a great ramshackle temple for his collection of handkerchiefs, canes and crutches, a colony of tents for 40-odd followers whom he called "Immortals." "I shall live forever," he told them, "and so shall you if you obey...
...resurrection. Authorities looked at the body, decided it had better be buried while there was something still left to bury. Next day in overalls and gingham the "Immortals," who support themselves by farming, chanted a requiem as Brother Isaiah was lowered into the earth. He lay in a plain pine box, his head pointed toward the north, his long, white whiskers flowing over his long, white robe. His followers plowed and harrowed the earth above him, went away to await his second coming...
...last place he thumped for the Federal deposit guaranty law, declared: "I have heard this and that Senator given the credit for this legislation, but I want to claim it here and now for the Democratic Party, lock, steel and barrel. The guaranty of bank deposits was a very plain and very definite pledge of the Democratic Party in the year...
Stewing in his little patch of plain and jungle in the Mahanadi delta on the Bay of Bengal, the feudal Rajah of Athgarh is freer of the British Crown than most of his great brother princes. His people are primitive Dravidians, his realm is small, he pays no tribute and is left pretty much to himself by the British Raj. Dearer to him than his elaborate pedigree, as imaginative as it is long, is his pack of 80 police dogs. Trained to hunt man, the pack has proved a failure at hunting India's leopards and black bucks...
...because its skeleton narrative is covered with the flesh & blood of homely detail, Pirate Junk deserves a high place in the true-story library. When Author Johnson read part of his diary to his companions, they grumbled that he had left out everything important and put in irrelevancies. Plain readers will not agree with them...