Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most striking of all, Edouard Herriot stands for the payment by France of her War debts to the U. S. and Britain even if Germany ceases to pay Reparations to France. Writing last February in his newspaper L'Ere Nouvelle, M. Herriot flatly called it the "plain duty" of France to "fulfill her obligations regardless of the Reparations question...
...motif makes its appearance at the beginning of Sally Dunn's life. She is an illegitimate child born into a plain English family who cannot understand how such things can rightly be. Innocent as the day herself, Sally is farmed out as a maid-of-all-work in the Yorke family. Sally loves her employers, thinks them perfection until gossip below stairs and her own observations make it clear that they have troubles undreamed of by her. Mrs. Yorke lets her husband love her only for babies' sake; Mr. Yorke wants to love...
...does not suffer greatly by this comparison. Mr. Yushny is much the same sort of master of ceremonies as Balieff. Witness the introduction he gives to a Boyar dance number, concluding with the sly information that he did the scenery for that act himself. When the curtain parts a plain velvet drop is revealed...
...Washington last week, the American Society of Newspaper Editors at its annual convention selected Fred Fuller Shedd (Philadelphia Bulletin'), president; Alfred H. Kirchhofer (Buffalo evening News), secretary; E. S. Beck (Chicago Tribune), treasurer; Paul Bellamy (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and Groves Patterson (Toledo Blade), vice presidents...
Baltimore last week was cleaning up the Lyric Theatre preparatory to the Metropolitan's annual spring visit. Clevelanders were trying to earn tickets in an Ask-Me-About-Opera contest sponsored by the Plain Dealer. Rochester socialites were getting out their top-hats, arranging dinner parties for the one night (April 25) when the Metropolitan would come there with pretty Lily Pons, its leading attraction...