Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor of Boston is elected by the city's plain people, the fun-loving Irish-Catholics of whom James Michael Curley is one. And Mayor Curley knows how to make gestures to his constituents. Last fortnight he refused to issue a permit for a longstanding intercoastal football game between Stanford and Dartmouth Nov. 28 in Harvard Stadium. His reason: a game between the plain people's Boston College and Holy Cross (Roman Catholic) was scheduled for the same day at Fenway Park; the Stanford-Dartmouth game would cut the gate receipts of a home industry...
...settlement at Homolka is situated on a round hill about 80 feet above the plain. The foundations of two stockades and ten houses have been determined by post holes and cellar pits. These were found after the party had searched the entire region for several days...
...Winner Henigan went special honors. On his brow Captain George Demeter of Boston, Grand Governor of the Greek-American Progressive Association, placed a laurel wreath made of laurel from the plain of Marathon, Greece. To him was awarded in addition to the usual diamond studded medal, another medal, inscribed with the word "Nενκηκaμεν," the famed dying cry of Pheidippides, who bore the news of the Battle of Marathon to Athens. Like many marathoners, Henigan, 39, has outraced his own youth. He has been a long distance runner for 20 years...
...Author, Consumptive, gaunt Maxim Gorki (Alicksei Maximovitch Pieshkov) has survived 63 years in spite of his disease, in spite of one attempt to commit suicide. A bystander like his hero, he took no part in the Revolution but is in good odor with the Soviet Government. Plain Russian Communists like him (although he spends nine months a year at his Italian villa) and have bought over 2,000,000 copies of his books in the last four years. Speaking no English, he does not know the phrase "moral turpitude," but on his single visit...
...Ursulines, as every good Catholic knows, are a teaching order of nuns (established 1572). Mere Marie de l'Incarnation (1599-1670) was born in Tours, named plain Marie Guyard. At 17 she married a M. Martin and bore him a son. Not till her husband was dead and Marie was 32 did she enter the Ursuline convent. There her mysticism and executive ability marked her for a super-nunnish career. When the call came for volunteers to go to Quebec, Mere Marie heard it and went...