Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Churches of America had been the subject of an investigation prompted by the million dollar deficit. It was found that only four cents to the dollar was actually given out among the missionaries. Whatever one may feel of the efficacy of missionary work by any sect, this practice was plain larceny, the raising of money under false pretenses. It appears that church-men have been cognizant of the matter for a long time, many employing the funds for purely practical purposes around their vestries and churches, supplementing their salaries, repairing their front porches, and sundries...
...There is very little evidence that Mendieta has or ever had the confidence of the country. He owes his accession to power solely to the discriminatory use which the American government has made of the weapon of recognition in order to discredit his predecessors and force their overthrow. The plain fact of the matter is that Cuba just barely tolerates a conservative government, for the country has become radical at heart due to the desperate economic plight of recent years. The situation since the occasion of Mendieta has improved very little if at all. Business is still practically...
...culture upon some poets, for tradition must have stronger ties than recondite allusions to forgotten epics and obscure quotations from moth-eaten manuscripts in Continental archives. L. Z.'s notes provide some elucidation of the passages from the "XXX Cantos," but there is still not enough clarity for the plain reader. "The Red Front," by Louis Aragon, in the translation of e. e. cummings, is less eccentric than the selections from cummings' own "Eimi." T. S. Eliot is represented by the least intelligible of his poems, the first part of "Sweeny Agonistes: Fragment of an Aristophanic Melodrama...
...will like the "Lost Patrol." It is, as advertised, a desert picture, a fact which may call up a few unpleasant ghosts. But, be advised, there are no women getting in the way, there are no beturbaned sheiks mouthing fury into their ratty whiskers. The "Lost Patrol" is the plain story of how eleven soldiers out of twelve in a British horse troop met their deaths in Mesopotamia, 1916. And, thanks be to somebody or other, the movies have discovered that simplicity is a good horror, even a good dramatic, medium...
That transaction, which, of course, was a plain trading of delegates' votes for political reward, may be condemned as hardly an expression of popular will and as a betrayal by delegates of their trust and all that sort of thing, but that's the way presidents are nominated in America and sometimes we get good ones and sometimes we don't. Woodrow Wilson made no trade himself to win the nomination but his lieutenants...