Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Cathedral of the Holy Name one day last week a choir chanted the Litany of Saints. In front of 2,300 plain people knelt 1,000 prelates including 14 archbishops of the Roman Catholic Church, 72 bishops, 14 abbots and Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. On the altar steps knelt George William Cardinal Mundelein. All the officiating churchmen were vested in red, the color of the day which was St. Mark's. Flat on his stomach before the altar steps, his face in his arms, his arms on a pillow...
First to underwrite the telephoto project was the Baltimore Sun, which was also the first newspaper in the U. S. to install a Morse telegraph wire and a linotype machine. Other underwriters included the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Times, Washington Star, Washington Post, Philadelphia Bulletin, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland News, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Globe Democrat, Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, Des Moines Register and Tribune, Omaha World-Herald, Milwaukee Journal, Miami Daily News, Dayton News, Buffalo News...
...plain man-in-the-street sometimes feels that William Shakespeare never existed at all as a real person, or that perhaps he actually was Francis Bacon or an incarnation of Ignatius Donnelly in disguise. Most experts agree, however, that William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon was the Shakespeare of the Plays and Sonnets which are still the highest peak in the jagged outline of English literature. But there remain many mysterious gaps in Shakespeare's personal history. Who, for instance, was the famed Dark Lady of the Sonnets Bernard Shaw and the late Frank Harris "proved" she was Mary...
...have proceeded upon the theory that we should not be afraid to tackle hot pokers because they were hot." So saying, Paul Bellamy, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, opened last week the 12th annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in the auditorium of Washington's National Press Club...
...Many a plain U.S. citizen will linger over the snapshots of the last Republican and Democratic Conventions, will hoot with sudden delight at an action photograph of the Senate ("Ever seen a section of a termite nest under glass?"), will scratch his head over this group picture of the House of Representatives: ". . . Everywhere the closeset eyes full of lawyer's chicanery, the pursed, selfrighteous mouth drawn down at the corners, the flabby self satisfied jowl...