Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laughing, whooping crowd of plain people craned necks at a sleepy horse in Mulvane, Kans. last week. It was "Annual Old Settlers Day," and old Dr. Solomon Thomas Shelly was giving a special show. The week before he had sent out a blanket invitation to more than 4,000 persons who got "their start in life" with his help. Some 10,000 people from Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and farther States came to Mulvane...
...school would be across the valley from "Taliesin," his studio-estate in the dairy country near Spring Green, Wis. He would be the chief faculty member, teaching male and female pupils his basic architectural law: that the architect must integrate his building with its surroundings (function, terrain, climate), make plain its structural elements and if possible develop them as ornamentation. He would teach them the feel of materials by having them blast stone, hew timber, dig soil, work in a machine-shop. They would study, sweat, play and brood in unison. They would be called, not ''students...
President Hoover did his best to look easy and informal but it was photographically plain that he got no fun out of his politically necessary antics. An amused onlooker was Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison...
...attain its full economic destiny. Mr. Hoover felt the same way. Last week it was a leaner, graver man of 58 who accepted his second nomination a few blocks from the White House. Almost all his hair was grey now. In his shoulders was a perceptible droop of fatigue. Plain were the marks of three of the worst years any peacetime President has had to endure. Lawn Party. Before accepting the nomination, President Hoover gave a lawn party to 500 important G. O. Partisans at the White House. Guest of honor was 71-year-old Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt...
...article, published March 5, 1931, was cited for "reportorial skill and industry in bringing to light the hitherto unknown facts and circumstances of the Wickersham Commission's exhaustive report on Prohibition." Honorably mentioned for their work were Charles Griffith Ross (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Walker Showers Buel (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Ashmun Norris Brown (Providence Journal), Harry W. Frantz (United Press), Drew Pearson (Baltimore Sun), John Snure Jr. (Washington Times...