Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain enough that unless drastic steps are taken to reduce expenditure, orthodox finance will soon become impossible. Meanwhile Mr. Chamberlain is in a sense making the worst of both worlds, for his Budget contains neither the anodyne of inflation nor the virtue of retrenchment. Indeed, the Budget seems confined to inflationary expenditure with deflationary taxation in a precarious equilibrium...
...Plain were the beauties of this arrangement. It would insulate Russia from the world with a strip of Russians of purest ray serene. It would scatter masses of ordinary Russians where their "lack of cooperation" could do the least harm. It would provide a citizen army at the border in case...
Alice in Wonderland, superbly sublimates the quality of plain orneriness. He puts more sheer malice in "For God's sake!'' than most actors could express with a snake-whip. The "Centipede's Club" has tried to smuggle a letter out to the Governor. And although Robert Locket has taken the blame, the warden has ordered all to be flogged over the Iron Horse. Groaning, whimpering from their beating, the boys unreasonably accuse Locket of being a stool pigeon. Defending him, Red arranges a light between Locket and Ringleader Wells behind the blacksmith shop. A guard intervenes...
Pharmacologists, pharmacists and plain drug store clerks came to attention last week when Sir Henry Hallett Dale, director of London's National Institute for Medical Research and English dean of his profession, reached Manhattan. He was escorted first to Baltimore, to earn a $1,000 stipend for delivering three memorial lectures, then to Rahway. N. J. to salute the opening of Merck & Co. Inc.'s new chemical research laboratory. Drug men were agog to see and hear...
...hundred years ago respectable folk in Boston's Jamaica Plain poked their heads out of their windows one night and saw a group of students valiantly attempting to serenade one of the young ladies of the town. The brand-new Harvard Glee Club was out on its first tour but the venture was unsuccessful. A band of rival suitors, hidden in the shrubbery, made vulgar noises with wind instruments, unhitched the Harvard boys' horses so that the Glee Club had to walk back to Cambridge. During the next 25 years there was another short-lived Glee Club; then...