Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state in his own very simple bedroom. A heavy white bandage was wrapped round his head, and he wore the olive drab uniform of a general. The scarlet sash of the Grand Cross of Leopold was across his chest. There was an ivory crucifix in his bruised hands. The plain rosewood bed on which he lay was covered with white lilacs. Two yellow altar candles burned steadily at its foot, two black-gowned nuns prayed at its head. His clock ticked steadily away on the bedside table...
...Wednesday at lunch and supper in the Union. The additional nominees are: For President, John David Barnes of New Bedford; for Secretary-Treasurer: Bruce Ormsby Bliven, Jr. of New York City, Harvey McClary Dawson of Washington, D.C., Richard Frederick French of Braintree, and Anthony Samuel Joseph Tomasello of Jamaica Plain...
...plain fact of the matter is that repeal has been pretty much of a flasco; liquor is only slighly cheaper, the speakeasies were just as good as the hotels and restaurants that have replaced them, and in many cases the quality of liquor has deteriorated. All this is due to the fact that no real attempt has been made to regulate effectively the liquor industry. With the lone exception of Pennsylvania, no state has in operation a really workable system of control, which keeps prices down and excludes illegal and fraudulent groups; nor has the Federal government been able...
...historians will be grateful for his picture of Lenin addressing a meeting: "The buzz of conversation dies as he shuffles onto the stage before you. For a period you join in the frantic applause. Then you watch him, this little man in his plain suit, standing there modestly, almost humbly. He speaks in German, not very well, pausing occasionally or even asking a word from those beside him. At first, though the silence is complete, you can hardly hear him. Then his voice strengthens and you listen with feverish eagerness for his message...
...plain fact of the matter is that our Lindy has not been very clever about this business. It is perfectly evident that the air mail contracts were shot through with graft and their wholesale cancellation was precisely what the sleek promoters of the air companies deserved; there is nothing to support the argument that some companies may be innocent and are consequently getting a raw deal. None of the members of that Jesse James guild had any more chance--or desire--to maintain their business integrity than a sailor landed in Scollay Square after six months...