Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simply wound up. His geniality, his personal charm, his good social background, will be advanced in his favor?and against them will be set the suspicion that he has all the cautious conservatism of the ruling rich. He will be called a strong man who fights battles for the plain people and a weak man who never took the unpopular side to his own cost. He will be damned for being too Wet and damned for being...
...even more convincing demonstration of her appeal when, with Funnyman Lou Holtz, she was a principal on the bill which smashed all records by lasting eleven weeks at Manhattan's Palace Theatre, No. 1 vaudeville house in the U. S. Singer Smith is 23 years old, addicted to plain clothes, backgammon, soda fountain drinks, prizefights. Like Caruso, she has small vocal cords, immensely powerful lungs, a jolly disposition...
Around the walls were six heaps of what had once been six seated Caciques. In Professor Caso's plain archeologist's terms: "The long years had dealt severely with them. . . . Their skeletons had virtually disintegrated during the many decades since they had been placed there." At burial the warriors had been sheathed with jewel-clotted gold. For each face there was a gold-&-turquoise mask. Extraordinary objects of gold, silver, copper, jade, turquoise, coral, pearl, nacre, rock crystal, alabaster, lay ranged about. Trophy of one warrior was a human skull, richly encrusted with turquoise and shell. In the hollow...
When Jay Gould precipitated the famed "Black Friday" of 1869, Helen Gould was a small tot of a year and a half. It was not until 1913 that she married Railman Finley Johnson Shepard. In the 45 years of her spinsterhood?she was plain, plump, not much concerned with "Society"?she dedicated herself to good works while her brothers and sister went out in the world. She scarcely approved of Sister Anna, who spent much money, married successively Count Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane and the Due de Talleyrand; or smart Brother Frank Jay twice-divorced, who dabbled (and still...
What shall a pious citizen believe? Shall he obey his God or his State when both claim allegiance? To most plain men an academic matter, this question has become increasingly engrossing to certain thoughtful U. S. religionists. Last week a large section of them, and their journals, were marshalled stoutly behind the assertion that...