Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington Board of Trade protested to the President at the loss of local self-government. Lawyers scanned Supreme Court decisions to prove that President Hoover had used a technicality to effect this appointment, that a retired Army officer still had a military status under the law. Even plain citizens could see that General Crosby would create a military majority, in fact if not in law, on the D. C. Commission...
...plain truth is that Labor cannot afford to waste time and energy now in a standing battle with the Lords, even though victory is certain. With the naval parley now in full swing it would be folly to turn aside for the mere purpose of thrashing a Tory majority in the House of Lords...
...Lecture Hall, where annually the mysteries of medieval unity and modern multiplicity are expounded, some 700 policemen in plain clothes recently heard District Attorney Robert T. Bushnell explain methods of avoiding the pitfalls of cross-examination in court by clever "rapid-fire" criminal lawyers and counsel against bullying autoists. The officers of the law took no notes, and their numerous cigars created a haze which busy ventilators failed to dissipate, but their interest in the district attorney's talk was so keen that they were unanimous in voting for a continuation...
Bewildered editors were faced with the possibility of having to print any querulous office-seeker's grievance in red-faced, "Second-Coming" type across their front pages. Said Editor Bellamy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I will confess that . . . I was entirely scooped." Lamented Editor Grove Patterson of the Toledo Blade: "It seems incredible...
...Significance. Popular with many plain people in his lifetime, Lincoln was almost universally hooted at by U. S. aristocracy and by Europe. (Notable exception: The Manchester trade-unionists, who applauded him even while the Southern blockade was ruining their cotton industry.) At his death the tide changed; now he is generally regarded, in the U. S. and abroad, as our greatest President, bar none. Says Biographer Ludwig: "In the many years I have been studying and writing about characters I have never found a more lovable man than Abraham Lincoln, whom God created as a solitary diamond, hors concours [unique...