Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan Opera's Board Chairman, took the Jubilee Singers abroad after their New York success, to Stockholm where they gave 52 concerts in a single season, to England where Queen Victoria was a disappointment to them because she received them in a plain black dress and widow's cap, to Germany where the Crown Prince, father of the Kaiser of Doom, gave a glittering court reception more to their liking...
...paintings from the municipal museum walls, shower the country with rubber checks, run up staggering accounts at the swankiest stores? He did these things with a regal elegance that seemed to remove the sting common to such machinations. How such a figure could descend to the tawdry level of plain grubbing seems incomprehensible...
Next night a plain bronze casket stood before the fireplace of "The Beeches" living room. On it was engraved: "Calvin Coolidge-1872-1933." Above it hung an oil painting of the onetime Presidential yacht Mayflower, one of Calvin Coolidge's few genuine diversions in office. Harry Ross stood close by. The only sound in the stillness of the house was the pitter-patter of Tiny Tim's claws as the Coolidge chow came & went on the hardwood floors. Far away through the same night with many a long whistle there roared a 13-car special bearing the great...
Most of the new governors were oldtime politicians past middle age who had worked up through inferior jobs to the top of the state pile. Most of them by birth and breeding were close to the plain people who had elected them. Most of them, as "outs" fighting "ins" had promised a "new deal" in the campaign. Every last one of them in their inaugural addresses or first legislative messages hammered hard on a common theme: Economy-economy-economy to save their states from bankruptcy...
...write English very well, the language is even less native to Ireland than it is to the U. S. The typical Irish writer wears his English with a difference. Racial bias toward tragic fancy, racial prejudice against successful fact give the Irish writer a peculiar angle on even plain Saxon themes. Author Stuart's theme is patriotism-which to an Irishman is partly like politics and partly like being in love. His tale, which starts realistically enough and wanders through dirty Dublin streets, ends toward the stars...