Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honors for the expedition went to the Hoover guests. No. 1 angler was Agnes Harvey Stone, plain-dressing, unrouged intellectual wife of Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the U. S. Supreme Court. Her 66-lb. sailfish, landed after a two-hour battle from dusk to moonrise eight miles out in the Atlantic, set the season's record, won her one of the Long Key fishing club's little gold buttons for a championship.* Washington society, whom the Stones entertain often and well, waited for her own account of the feat. If anyone should impolitely doubt her story...
...witness, introduced to the committee as "a gentleman and a scholar" by Illinois Wet Representative Sabath who had never seen him before, was Walter W. Liggett, onetime Minnesota newsgatherer. Lately Mr. Liggett has been investigating Prohibition conditions in several states and writing for Plain Talk such articles as "Holy Hypocritical Kansas," "Michigan, Soused and Serene,"Bawdy Boston," "How wet is Washington?" His testimony was largely a rehash of his writings. Excerpts...
...inevitable that the success of Holabird & Root should encourage the modernist faction in the Architectural League. Added to this, perhaps a larger proportion of the exhibits than ever before displayed the influence of utility and simplicity. Even in domestic architecture there were more plain surfaces, less elaborately romantic Tudor, more convenience and less picturesqueness...
...miracle was, of course, plain physics, which has been used dozens of times to find lost radium. When Professor Allen rubbed his electroscope with the cat's fur he charged it with static electricity. Because radium gives off rays with electrical characteristics, when the electroscope approached the radium among the cinders, the rays affected the electrically charged gold leaf. Naturally, they separated...
...male Circe, Author James Joyce transforms upstanding, understood words into nightmarish, subconscious semblances; his latest book cannot be read, it. must be puzzled over. In his famed Ulysses, this Jabberwocky manner cropped out only in occasional shoals and semi-submerged reefs; most of it was plain sailing. But Ulysses, describing the events of one Dublin day, was a daybook. Work in Progress, of which Tales Told of Shem and Shaim are three disconnected fragments, describes the thoughts of one Dublin dreamer, is a night-book. He who runs will not be able to read; he will have to slow down...