Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jameson admitted that he divided his report as Bishop Cannon had asked, though it did not tally with his own figures. The Bishop's purpose was plain: under Federal law he would have to report only the small headquarters contribution for interstate use, could suppress record of the large amount assigned to the local Virginia organization...
Pundits who knew the lines in Greek and plain pilgrims who did not, had the following colloquialisms set before them...
...prime exhibit of "Bawdy Boston" (expose article in Plain Talk by Walter W. Liggett (TIME, Dec. 23) was Oliver Bridge Garrett, onetime "million-dollar cop" of the Boston police force, now a pensioner of Massachusetts taxpayers. Investigator Liggett reported that, with no visible income beyond his $40-a-week salary as head of the vice squad, Patrolman Garrett used to maintain a blooded-stock farm, a racing stable, a Cadillac, a Marmon, a Chrysler, a wardrobe of $150 tailored suits. Suddenly, last August, Patrolman Garrett was reduced to a pavement beat. Said Writer Liggett: "It is the belief of Boston...
...Greedy monopoly . . . plain robbery . . . patriotic duty . . . finest bill ever . . . protection for all ... utterly indefensible . . . stricken agriculture . . . an All-American bill . . . murderous competition . . . excessive profits . . . cost of production . . . outrageous...
...horseback, crooked sheriff. It is all played humorlessly but fairly effectively by Richard Arlen, Mary Brian and a villain named Fred Kohler. Best shots: Harry Green as a Jewish cattle-rustler; a scene in which a herd of wild horses rushes through a fence and over a sloping plain...