Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Instead Chairman Legge would mount a bare platform and make a speech. His constant theme: Cut wheat acreage by 20%. But when the farmers got home at night, they were more likely to remember Mr. Legge's clenched fists, his red, sweating face, his "hells," and "damns" than his plain-as-a-pikestaff argument that, with world prices down, U. S. wheat production (850,000,000 bu.) must, to be profitable, be cut down toward domestic consumption...
...recitation of a selection from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. At the same time the judges, R. W. Boyden '85, R. T. Bushnell '18, I. L. Winters '86, Associate Professor of Public Speaking, Emeritus, awarded the Boylston prize of $50 to John James Ryan, Jr. 33 of Jamaica Plain, for his recitation of Wilson's First Inaugural Address...
...much disappointed. ... I need not tell you of my real interest in the subjects you will discuss. . . . May I call your attention particularly to the water power policy of this State, to our agricultural program and the new land utilization policy." To Progressives this sounded like a pretty plain bid for their support of the Roosevelt candidacy next year. In an impassioned speech Senator Norris exclaimed: "What we need to bring prosperity and happiness is another Roosevelt in the White House...
Early editions of Science & Health have long commanded high prices from sensa-tion-mongers who have been planning to circulate the more startling passages. Photostat departments at public libraries com- plain that they are overwhelmed by the demand. Meanwhile Christian Science spokesmen declare that their chief interest in the vestal bill was their desire to protect their newspapers and magazines throughout the world...
Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, two inspectors of police, several sergeants, 30 uniformed constables and unnumbered plain clothes men met Spain's King Alfonso XIII in Victoria Station, warmly welcomed him to England. To foil any would-be bombers, Alfonso's coach had been secretly detached from "The Golden Arrow," speedy coast-to-London express, at Ashford, Kent, and arrived eight minutes later at a different, securely barricaded platform...